NDK Metro Station

NDK Metro Station (Bulgarian: Метростанция „Национален дворец на културата“ / Метростанция „НДК“, Natsionalen Dvorets na Kulturata, ‘National Palace of Culture’) is a station on the Sofia Metro in Bulgaria. It opened on 31 August 2012. Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov and the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso inaugurated the new section of the Sofia Metro, which was funded with EU money. [1][2] On 26 August 2020, transfer to NDK II on M3 line was opened.[3]

National Palace of Culture
Coordinates	42°41′14.06″N 23°19′9.77″E
Owned by	Sofia Municipality
Platforms	island
Tracks	2
Connections	M3 via NDK II Metro Station
Construction
Structure type	sub-surface
Platform levels	2
Other information
Station code	2981; 2982
History
Opened	31 August 2012
Services
Preceding station   Sofia Metro   Following station European Union toward Vitosha M2 line Serdika II toward Obelya

M2 and M4 lines
All stations are wheelchair accessible
Moderno predgradie (proposed) Obelya Lomsko shose cont. as M2 cont. as M4 Slivnitsa Beli Dunav Lyulin Nadezhda Zapaden Park Han Kubrat Vardar Knyaginya Maria Luiza Konstantin Velichkov Central Railway Opalchenska Lavov most ↖Serdika↘ ↙Serdika II↗ NDK SU St. Kliment Ohridski European Union Vasil Levski Stadium James Bourchier Joliot-Curie Vitosha G.M.Dimitrov Musagenitsa Mladost 1 M1 Aleksandar Malinov Mladost 3 Akademik Aleksandar Teodorov - Balan Inter Expo Center – Tsarigradsko shose Business Park Sofia Druzhba Iskarsko shose Sofiyska Sveta gora Sofia Airport
Detailed track map line end -8' Vitosha   ↑Opened 2016↑ -6' James Bourchier -4' European Union built 1981 opened 2012 Perlovska -2' NDK built 1981 opened 2012 Serdika M1 to Slivnitsa/Business Park Sofia   0' Serdika II Vladayska 2' Lavov most 3' Central Railway Station 5' Knyaginya Maria Luiza BDŽ National Rail to Pernik-Kulata/Kyustendil BDŽ National Rail to Dragoman/Radomir/Bankya 00' Future extension   00' Ilyantsi branch Lev Tolstoy Svoboda Iliyansko shose Ilyantsi Ilyanysi branch end 7' Han Kubrat Suhodolska 9' Nadezhda 11' Beli Dunav 13' Lomsko shose ↑Opened 2012↑   15' Obelya Kakach Moderno predgradie (proposed) National Rail to Dragoman/Radomir/Bankya   ↑Opened 2003↑ RED line to Depot   ↓Opened 1998↓ -13' Slivnitsa -11' Lyulin -8' Zapaden Park Suhodolska National Rail to Pernik-Kulata/Kyustendil -6' Vardar -4' Konstantin Velichkov   ↓Opened 1999↓ Vladayska -2' Opalchenska   ↓Opened 2000↓ 0' Serdika Serdika II M2 to Obelya/Vitosha     ↓Opened 2009↓ 3' Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski Perlovska 5' Vasil Levski Stadium 8' Joliot-Curie WTC Novachitsa 10' G.M.Dimitrov 12' Musagenitsa Darvenishka 14' Mladost 1 00' M1 to Business Park   00'   ↓Opened 2015↓   16' Aleksandar Malinov 18' Akademik Aleksandar Teodorov - Balan Banishka 20' Business Park Sofia Mladost branch end 00'   ↓Opened 2012↓   16' Mladost 3 18' Inter Expo Center – Tsarigradsko shose   ↓Opened 2015↓ 20' Druzhba 23' Iskarsko shose National Rail to Ihtiman/Karlovo 25' Sofiyska Sveta gora 27' Sofia Airport Terminal 2 Airport branch end

Interchange with other public transport

North side:

• Trolleybus service: 1, 2, 5, 8, 9

South side:

• Tramway service: 1, 6, 7
• Trolleybus service: 1, 2, 5, 8, 9

Location

The station is serving the National Palace of Culture and the south end of Vitosha Boulevard.

Gallery

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References

1. "Bulgaria: Sofia Expands Its Metro, Barroso Pleased". Novinite.com. Retrieved 2012-09-01.
2. "Jose Manuel Barroso: Sofia subway's new line is an example of what can be expected from Europe". Focus-fen.net. Retrieved 2012-09-01.
3. Schwandl, Robert. "Sofia". urbanrail.

External links

Media related to NDK Metro Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Sofia Metropolitan (Official site)
• More info in Bulgarian
• SofiaMetro@UrbanRail
• Sofia Urban Mobility Center
• Sofia Metro station projects
• 360 degree panorama from outside the station (south end)
• Sofia Metropolitan
• Project Slide