European Games to Add to Pockets of Subway Management

Before the I European Games there is 190 days left and it looks like the government does not know how else to please the guests expected, showing Baku "in all its glory." At this time began repair work on two underground stations.

The press secretary of Baku Metro Nasimi Pashayev told local press that the repair at the stations Nariman Narimanov and Ganjlik is carried out in preparation for the first European Games. Being replaced is the facing of the passages and upper lobbies. The flooring will be updated as well as the line of communication.

According to Pashayev, the work will be completed within three months. The repair of other metro stations is also planned. He did not disclose the amount allocated from the state budget for this purpose.

Note that the stations Nariman Narimanov and Ganjlik of Baku Metro are in quite usable conditions and do not differ from the "brothers" in other cities around the world. The Azerbaijani government spends tens of millions of AZN on the trim and flooring of the passages and lobbies of the underground, using marble and granite material. With such expenditure, the activity of JSC Baku Underground is subsidized by the state budget. In 2014, the government granted the Metro 35 million manat, and in 2015 the subsidy is projected at 37.9 million manat. --08D--