Metro/Subway of Almaty, Kazakhstan

Almaty Metro (Kazakh: Алматы метрополитені; Russian: Алматинский метрополитен) is a rapid transit system in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The first line of the system was opened on 1 December 2011, after more than 23 years of construction. The metro system became the second metro in Central Asia, after the Tashkent Metro in Uzbekistan, and the sixteenth metro in the former Soviet Union region.