Metroelectrotrans Kazan (formerly Kazan Metro)

The municipal unitary enterprise Metroelectrotrans (formerly Kazan Metro) is one of the largest transport enterprises in the Republic of Tatarstan.

Structure

As of December 2018, the Municipal Unitary Enterprise Metroelectrotrans includes 19 structural divisions that organize the work of ground and underground electric transport.

Ground transport: tram depot; 2 trolleybus depots; Energy management; land transport track facilities; Road transport enterprise;

Underground transport: electric depot; Revenue Collection and Movement Directorate; subway energy industry; subway track economy;

Combined services: Control set; Directorate of Information Technology and Communications; security service; the office of the Chief Auditor; support service; ZHEV; DCS; sewing shop.

History

2021: A criminal case has been opened against employees of the Kazan metro for crypto mining at the workplace

On July 22, 2021, information appeared that Tatarstan a criminal case was instituted under Art. Art. 285 of the Criminal Code ("Abuse of power"). The defendants in the case were the 40-year-old chief engineer of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise Metroelectrotrans Kazan and the 32-year-old director of the ground energy service, the transport press service of the law enforcement agency said.

Both employees of the transport enterprise were engaged in cryptocurrency mining at the transformer substation of the metro, installing special equipment.

For two months, the "crypto farm" consumed electricity in the amount of over 350 thousand rubles.^[1]

2018

As of December 2018, it carries out more than 30% of the total passenger traffic in the city of Kazan. It is an operational enterprise that included the former municipal unitary enterprise Kazan Metro and the tram-trolleybus municipal unitary enterprise Kazgorelektrotrans.

Many thousands of employees of the enterprise ensure uninterrupted operation of ground and underground electric transport. Reconstruction of existing and construction of new tram and trolleybus transport lines is being carried out, the transport fleet is being maintained and updated, the system of operation and traffic control is being improved, internal training and retraining of transport industry specialists are being carried out.

At the same time as the construction and reconstruction of land transport lines and networks, the company performs contract work on the construction of new metro facilities.

2011

As of September 2011, the total length of the Kazan Metro is about 12 km. More than 750 employees serve it.

2005: Getting Started

It was opened on August 27, 2005 during the celebration of the millennium of Kazan and became the first metro in Russia built after the collapse of the USSR - 14 years after the metro opened in 1991 in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). Kazan Metro became the seventh in a row in the Russian Federation and the fifteenth in the CIS.

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