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Ploshcha Yakuba Kolasa (Minsk Metro)

metro station in Minsk, Belarus

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ2625686 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ploshcha Yakuba Kolasa (Belarusian: Плошча Якуба Коласа; Russian: Площадь Якуба Коласа) is a Minsk Metro station. It was opened on June 24, 1984.

Station was named after Belarusian writer Yakub Kolas, and literally means Square of Yakub Kolas.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ploshcha Yakuba Kolasa (Minsk Metro)” as metro station in Minsk, Belarus. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ploshcha, Yakuba and Kolasa.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ploshcha, Yakuba and Kolasa providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Ploshcha Yakuba Kolasa (Minsk Metro)”, the useful work is to connect “metro station in Minsk, Belarus” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2625686. Authority coordinates are 53.916, 27.584. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ploshcha Yakuba Kolasa (Minsk Metro)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.