ArmInfo.According to preliminary estimates, the construction of the Ajapnyak metro (subway) station will be completed by 2030-2032. This was reported to Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan during a working meeting of the capital's mayor's office on July 1.
In particular, it was noted that this schedule was drawn up taking into account all possible risks and deviations, and depends on what the source of financing will be. Those responsible for the project, at the latest in August, must submit an assessment of the economic efficiency of the project to the Investment Committee of the Republic of Armenia and conduct negotiations on financing. The environmental impact assessment (EIA) is scheduled to be completed in October this year. This will be followed by a comprehensive state examination and a tender process in 2025. The construction, which will last about 4 years, is scheduled to begin in 2026. The medium-term expenditure program is 6 billion drams, but as a result of the approval of the program by the Investment Council, its size will be adjusted. "This is a realistic positive scenario that depends on the sources of funding," the mayor's office noted.
Tigran Avinyan, in turn, emphasized that it is important to be proactive with government partners in solving technical, financial problems and in matters of conducting examinations in order to complete everything on time.
"We made a promise and this station will be built. Please keep me informed so that I can intervene when necessary. Because all these processes cannot be left to a bureaucratic process. This way the project can die a slow death," the mayor said.
At the end of November 2021, it was reported that the leading Russian company Metrogiprotrans won the tender announced by the Yerevan City Hall for the design of the Ajapnyak metro station in the administrative district of the same name in the Armenian capital. The preliminary version of the project involved the construction of a bridge across the Hrazdan River only for the metro, but Metrogiprotrans proposed building a second "floor" for cars and pedestrians. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Metrogiprotrans Valery Abramson also proposed a metro development project to the Armenian government worth $500 million. "The Russian Agency for Export Credit and Investment Insurance (EXIAR) is ready to support the program on favorable terms. With these funds we will be able to modernize the infrastructure of the old metro, and also plan those areas of the city towards which stations can be expanded," Abramson said.
It was reported that if the loan agreement with ESCAR is approved, construction work will last about 1.5 years. According to the plan of the city authorities, the path to the new metro station, 525 meters long, should pass through a tunnel, the construction of which began in Soviet times and remained unfinished. Then the Ajapnyak station remained unfinished; the project included its continuation to the Davidashen district on the northwestern outskirts of the city. The construction project itself covers 3 stages. The first stage involved geological, environmental and other examinations; perhaps already in October the Yerevan City Hall will pay the designer the 545 million drams due to him. Another 300 days are allotted for the implementation of the second and third stages. The total cost of the project could be about $50 million.
