A tiny game · line 1
Metro Minsk
Drive line 1 from Malinaŭka to Uručča in two minutes. Hold to brake, stop the doors in the green zone, and collect a postcard from each station.
Score0
Time2:00
Best0
Next stopMalinaŭka
Postcard unlocked
How to play
The train comes in at speed. Hold to brake, let go to coast.
Stop with the amber door inside the green zone. The closer to its centre, the more points.
Stop short or overshoot and you lose 50 points. Every good stop unlocks that station's postcard.
Your postcards
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One for every station on line 1, each with something true and lovely to find above ground. They stay here, in this browser.
Malinaŭka
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The western end of line 1 greets you with a pistachio-green hall under a softly glowing blue ceiling.
On the mapPiatroŭščyna
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Look up: the vaulted ceiling is a winter night sky, twinkling with about 400 built-in lights.
On the mapMichalova
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Named after a village that once stood here, the station is designed around a cool winter sunset in marble and steel.
On the mapHrušaŭka
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Hruša means pear in Belarusian, and the station keeps a playful pear sculpture as a wink at the neighbourhood's name.
On the mapInstytut Kultury
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Glowing yellow, orange and red glass panels celebrate Belarusian culture, and the exits lead to the suburban trains.
On the mapPlošča Lienina
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A passage leads straight into Minsk's main railway station, and outside rise the twin towers of the Gates of Minsk.
On the mapKastryčnickaja
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Come up by Alexander Square, laid out in 1872, where the Boy with a Swan fountain has splashed since 1874.
On the mapPlošča Pieramohi
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Step out near Gorky Park on the Svislach: old lime trees, a Ferris wheel and a planetarium.
On the mapPlošča Jakuba Kolasa
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A short walk from Kamarouka, the city's main food market since 1979, where a bronze horse and sparrow guard the fountain.
On the mapAkademija Navuk
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The exits open onto the grand main building of the National Academy of Sciences, with the Oktyabr cinema close by.
On the mapPark Čaliuskincaŭ
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Right by Chelyuskinites Park, grown from an old forest, with the Central Botanical Garden, founded in 1932, next door.
On the mapMaskoŭskaja
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Close to the Children's Railway, a little narrow-gauge line through the park, run with teenagers since 1955.
On the mapUschod
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Come up beside the National Library, the glass diamond with a rooftop view and a facade that lights up after dark.
On the mapBarysaŭski Trakt
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Named after the old road east to the town of Barysaŭ, this bright station opened with the line's 2007 extension.
On the mapUručča
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While digging this station in 2006, builders found the bones of a prehistoric forest elephant.
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