Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line

Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line
Overview
Type Rapid transit
System Kiev Metro
Locale Kiev, Ukraine
Termini Heroiv Dnipra
Vystavkovyi Tsentr
Stations 16
Operation
Opened December 17, 1976
Operator(s) Kyivskyi Metropoliten
Technical
Line length 18.48 km
Track gauge 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 56 in)
Route map
Legend
Depot-2 Obolon
Heroiv Dnipra
Minska
Obolon
Petrivka (Kiev-Petrivka Railway Station)
Tarasa Shevchenka ( at Podilska)
Kontraktova Ploshcha
Poshtova Ploshcha (Funicular, River Port)
Maidan Nezalezhnosti ( at Khreshchatyk)
Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho ( at Palats Sportu)
Olimpiiska
Palats "Ukrayina"
Lybidska
Demiivska (Central Intercity Bus Station)
Holosiivska
Vasylkivska
Vystavkovyi Tsentr
Ipodrom (South Intercity Bus Station)
Avtovokzal "Teremky"
Vulytsia Kreisera "Avrora"
Teremky
Odeska
Depot "Teremky"

The Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line (Ukrainian: Куренівсько-Червоноармійська лінія, Kurenivs’ko-Chervonoarmiys’ka liniia; Russian: Куреневско-Красноармейская линия, Kurenevsko-Krasnoarmeiskaya linia), is the second line of the Kiev Metro, first opened in 1976, it extended northwards along the right bank of the Dnieper river and began deviating from the river towards the southwest. As the current stations were built in the 1970s and 80s, architecturally the line shows some of the best examples of late-Soviet architectural features. It is generally coloured blue on the maps.

Contents

Timeline

Segment Date opened Length
Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Poshtova Ploshcha, Kontraktova Ploshcha 17 December 1976 2.32 km
Tarasa Shevchenka, Petrivka, Obolon 19 December 1980 4.40 km
Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho, Olimpiiska 19 December 1981 1.70 km
Minska, Heroiv Dnipra 6 November 1982 2.35 km
Palats "Ukrayina", Lybidska 30 December 1984 2.43 km
Demiivska, Holosiivska, Vasylkivska 15 December 2010 3.80 km
Vystavkovyi Tsentr 27 December 2011 1.48 km
Total: 16 stations 18.48 km

Name changes

Station Previous name(s) Years
Maidan Nezalezhnosti Ploshcha Kalinina 19761977
Ploshcha Zhovtnevoi Revolutsii 19771991
Kontraktova Ploshcha Chervona Ploshcha 19761990
Obolon Prospekt Korniychuka 19801990
Palats "Ukrayina" Chervonoarmiyska 19841993
Lybidska Dzerzhynska 19841993
Olimpiiska Respublikansky Stadion 19812011

Transfers

# Transfer to At
Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line Maidan Nezalezhnosti
Syretsko-Pecherska Line Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho

Rolling stock

The line shares the Obolon' (#2) depot with the Syretsko-Pecherska Line. Presently 32 five-carriage trains are assigned to it.

Recent developments and future plans

A major extension of the line to the southwestern regions of Holosiiv and Teremky has long been planned since the 1980s, however due to the difficult conditions under the Lybid River and financial shortages, all work was frozen in the early 1990s and the completed sections were flooded.

Resumed in 2002, the project[1] will conclude of seven stations and should be finished by 2020. Demiyivska, Holosiivska and Vasylkivska were opened December 15th 2010; after a delay of two years because of lack of funds.[2][3] Vystakovyi Tsentr was opened December 27th 2011.[4] The second stage will include the stations Ipodrom and Teremki (planned opening in 2012[5]) which will bring the line along the Akademika Glushkova avenue past the Kiev Ring Road. The final stage may finish with the station Odeska and a new depot nearby. A considered option is a two station branch after Ipodrom northwards to two further stations: Avtovokzal Teremky and Vulytsia Kreisera Avrory.

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