Belorussky railway station (in 1870-1871 – Smolensky, in 1871-1912 and 1917-1922 – Brestsky, in 1912-1917 – Aleksandrovsky, in 1922-1936 – Belorussian-Baltic) – the passenger terminal of the Moscow-Passenger-Smolenskaya station, one of ten railway stations in Moscow. Located on Tverskaya Zastava Square, 7.
Belorussky Station is part of the Moscow Regional Directorate of Railway Stations of the Moscow transport system.
According to the main application, it is a passenger. In terms of the amount of work, it is extracurricular. It is the starting point of the Belarusian direction of the Moscow Railway as part of the Moscow-Minsk highway, as well as the station of the Belarusian-Savelovsky diameter of the Moscow Central Diameters. It is not a dead end. The line continues in transit further, like the Alekseevskaya connecting line.
Since 2018, a combined station has been operating based on the Moscow-Passenger-Smolenskaya and Moscow-Tovarnaya stations.
The station serves 14 to 25 thousand passengers daily (3-5 thousand long-distance and 11-20 thousand suburban), 34 pairs of long-distance passenger trains and 139 pairs of suburban trains, and about 60 pairs of regional express trains and aero express trains.
The construction of the railway from Moscow to Smolensk, and then in the direction of Minsk and Warsaw, began in the second half of the 1860s. The road was called Moscow-Smolensk. The station’s construction, which received the name, Smolensky, started at the end of April 1869; it became the sixth in a row in Moscow. The grand opening of the Moscow-Smolensk railway took place on September 19, 1870.
In August 1922, this track and Moscow-Baltic roads were merged into the Moscow-Belarusian-Baltic one, so the station was renamed the Belorussian-Baltic one. In May 1936, after another reorganization of the railways, the station received its current name – Belorussky. In 1938, the Belorusskaya Radialnaya metro station was launched in the right wing of the station. In 1976, a new station building was built in addition to the existing one.
On September 27, 2007, Aeroexpress began reconstruction to organize a railway connection with Sheremetyevo Airport. The project for reconstructing part of the station was estimated at $7.7 million. It involved the construction of a new terminal, which became one of the central links in railway communication between Moscow and the airport.
The new air terminal is in the fourth hall of the Belorussky railway station and occupies an area of 600 m². Here, passengers departing from Sheremetyevo can check in for flights using self-check-in kiosks. Baggage check-in at the city terminal was canceled on December 1, 2010, due to a sharp increase in passengers. The terminal opened on August 27, 2009.
In June 2008, the construction of a railway terminal complex in Sheremetyevo was completed and rolling stock, new in terms of its technical and design characteristics, was launched: new ED4MKM-Aero electric trains manufactured by CJSC Transmashholding were put into operation. Express trains to Sheremetyevo depart from Belorussky railway station and deliver passengers to the Sheremetyevo Airport station.
The station is also a part of the Moscow Central Diameters, line MCD-1.
Directions
The passenger terminal of the Belorussky railway station serves long-distance trains (mainly to European countries) to the cities: of Minsk, Vilnius, Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, Prague, Grodno, Mogilev, Brest, Vitebsk, as well as north-western directions – through Vyazma, Rzhev to Velikiye Luki and Pskov.
Suburban electric trains of the Belarusian direction follow Usovo, Odintsovo, Golitsyno, Kubinka I, Mozhaisk, Borodino, Zvenigorod (including express trains) to the final stops.
Transit movement of electric trains in the Savelovsky direction was organized.
Aeroexpress trains depart regularly from the Belorussky railway station to Sheremetyevo Airport. The journey time is 50 minutes.
In the spring of 2021, after a break due to coronavirus restrictions, regular communication with the cities of Belarus was resumed. The movement of long-distance passenger trains to Minsk, Brest, Polotsk, Vitebsk, Gomel has been restored. A new route for the high-speed train “Lastochka” to Minsk has been launched.
Ground public transport
At this station, you can transfer to the following routes of urban passenger transport:
Buses: m1, m32, e30, e30k, 27, 82, 116, 345, s356, 366, 382, s484, s532, 905, t18, t54, t56, t70, t78, n1, n12
Trams: 7, 9.
See also Moscow transport system, Moscow railways, Moscow metro.
