Kharkiv Metro
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The central platform of one of the first stations in the system, Kholodna Hora.
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| Native name | Харківський метрополітен Kharkivskyi metropoliten |
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| Owner | City of Kharkiv | ||
| Locale | Kharkiv, Ukraine | ||
| Transit type | Metro/Subway | ||
| Number of lines | 3 | ||
| Number of stations | 30 | ||
| Daily ridership | 633,150 (2013) | ||
| Annual ridership | 231.1 million (2013) | ||
| Website | Kharkiv Metro (Ukrainian) | ||
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| Began operation | 1975 | ||
| Number of vehicles | 59 | ||
| Train length | 5 cars | ||
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| System length | 38.1 km (23.7 mi) | ||
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The Kharkiv Metro (Ukrainian: Харківське метро or Харківський метрополітен) is the metro system that serves the city of Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine. The metro was the second in Ukraine (after Kiev) and the sixth in the USSR when it opened in 1975. The metro consists of three lines which operate on 37.6 kilometres (23.4 mi) of route and serve 30 stations. The system transported 231.1 million passengers in 2013 (down from 239.3 million in 2012).
Initial plans for a rapid transit system in Kharkiv were made when the city was a capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. However, after the capital moved to Kiev in 1934 and Kharkiv suffered heavy destruction during World War II, a rapid transit system was dropped from the agenda. In the mid-1960s, the existing mass transit system became too strained, and construction of the metro began in 1968.
Seven years later, on 23 August 1975, the first eight-station segment of 10.4 kilometres (6.5 mi) was put into use. It is claimed that the metro does not have the beautiful and excessive decorations that stations in Moscow and Saint Petersburg Metros show, yet they do make the best of mid-1970s and later styles. While a metro token is shown above; these can no longer be used in Kharkiv, (since 2014 or 15?). You must buy a single use ticket or use a reloadable card. Tokens are still used in Kiev as of 2017.
In August 2016 the Peremoha station became the first Kharkiv metro station with disabled access.
Currently, the Kharkiv Metro consists of 3 lines, 30 stations, and 37.6 kilometres (23.4 mi) of route. The stations arranged in a typical Soviet design of a triangle, that is, three radial lines crossing in the city centre. Open from 5:30 in the morning until 23:59, it has a daily passenger traffic of over one million passengers.
Because of the city's uneven landscape, the metro stations are located on varying depths. Six of the system's 30 stations are deep level stations and the remaining are shallow. Of the former, all but one are pylon type, and the latter are of column type. The shallow stations comprise fourteen pillar-trispans and eight single vaults. Kharkiv was the first metro to exhibit the single vault design of the shallow type (see more at the Skhodnenskaya article).
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