Azerbaijan has opened “November 8” metro station in capital Baku.
The new station honors the liberation of the country’s historic Shusha city on November 8 and the victory in the Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020. “November 8” is the 26th station of the Baku metro. Located in Ceyhun Salimov Street in Baku’s Nasimi district, “November 8” is the third station on the purple line.
President Ilham Aliyev inaugurated the metro station on May 29. Baku Metro Chairman Zaur Huseynov told Aliyev that the state-of-the-art technologies have been applied in the construction of the new line. Moreover, compared to other lines, “November 8” will have series of innovations that include safe emergency power supply system, SCADA dispatch control, data collection and visual tracking system, among other features.
The metro station will open on May 31 at 6 AM along with other stations. Baku metro had remained closed since October 2020 due to the strict COVID-19 quarantine regime in the country.
Shusha was occupied by Armenian forces in 1992 and was the last of Azerbaijani cities to be liberated in the last year’s 44-day-war. Azerbaijan celebrates November 8 as the Victory Day.
