Peremoha (Kharkiv Metro)

Peremoha (Ukrainian: Перемога; literally, Victory) is the 30th station of the Kharkiv Metro, located on the system's Oleksiivska Line. The station is located immediately north of the Oleksiivska station, and is the line's new terminus. The station's official opening was on 19 August 2016 by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.[1] The station welcomed its first passengers on 25 August 2016.[2]

Peremoha
Kharkiv Metro Station
Coordinates50°3′36.31″N 36°12′4.65″E
Owned byKharkiv Metro
Line(s) Oleksiivska Line
Platforms1
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeunderground
Platform levels2
History
Opened19 August 2016[1] (first passengers 25 August 2016[2])
ElectrifiedYes
Services
Preceding station   Kharkiv Metro   Following station
TerminusOleksiivska Line

Peremoha is named after the Prospect Peremohy road, which runs through the vicinity. (During the early planning stages the station was referred to as Prospekt Peremohy (Ukrainian: Проспект Перемоги).)

The station is the first Kharkiv metro station with disabled access.[3]

History

Construction of the station began in 1992, and since then construction was stopped numerous times.[1][4] Under the initiative of Kharkiv Mayor Mikhail Dobkin, construction work on the station began again in 2009,[5] with an opening date of 2010, although it was later set back a couple of years due to inadequate funding. A new date was set at 7 or 8 May 2012,[4] which would have had significance since Victory Day used to be then celebrated on 9 May (in Ukraine),[6] and which would have been in time for the UEFA Euro 2012 football championship. However, new funding problems pushed the completion date back to 23 August 2012,[7] then again another year further to 23 August 2013,[8] and then again to 23 August 2014.[9] (23 August is Kharkiv's city day.[10])

Architecturally, the station was planned to be modeled in the (former Soviet Union holiday celebrated on 9 May) Victory Day theme.[10] In April 2015, the parliament of Ukraine outlawed Soviet and Communist symbols, street names and monuments, in a set of decommunization laws.[11] So in May 2015 Ukraine abolished Victory Day and replaced the holiday with Victory Day over Nazism in World War II (also celebrated on 9 May).[6] Hence, the station's interior was slightly changed to comply with the April 2015 decommunization laws.[10][12]

The station is designed to be two-tiered with the upper balconies used as an underground passenger walkway from either side of the Ludvík Svoboda Prospect.

The station's direct vicinity includes a market, tram and trolleybus lines. After the Peremoha station's completion, the Oleksiivska Line depot is planned to be constructed to the north of the station. Also planned is a new intercity bus station, which would lighten the traffic load upon the Tsentralnyi Rynok's bus station.

References
  1. Poroshenko opens new subway station in Kharkiv, Interfax-Ukraine (19 August 2016)
  2. (in Russian) The first passengers at the metro station "Victory" (photo), SQ (25 August 2016)
  3. Kharkiv metro reaches 30 stations Kharkiv metro reaches 30 stations, Railway Gazette International (22 August 2016)
  4. Kuznetsov, Nikolai (December 21, 2010). "Boris Kolesnikov provided the Prospekt Peremohy station's completion date". Gorodskoy Dozor 2011 (in Russian). Retrieved 6 June 2011.
  5. "Program of the construction of the metro". Official site KP "Kharkivskyi metropoliten" (in Ukrainian). metro.kharkov.ua. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
  6. «Велику Вітчизняну війну» замінили на «Другу світову» — закон (in Ukrainian). Fakty. ICTV. 09.04.2015
    Депутати врегулювали питання про відзначення в Україні перемоги над нацизмом (in Ukrainian). The Ukrainian Week. 09.04.2015
  7. Fedosenko, Pavel. "During EURO 2012, Kharkiv may be left without the "Peremoha" station". Segodnya (in Russian). Retrieved 6 June 2011.
  8. Zozulya, Irina. "Station "Pobeda" will become the last station in our metro system?". Komsomolskaya Pravda (in Russian). Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  9. Hutz, Irina. "Construction of the metro station "Peremoha" is under control" (in Ukrainian).
  10. IN KHARKIV METRO PROJECT "VICTORY" IS THROUGH LEGAL REVIEW DISCOMMUNIZATION. 5 Kanal (13 August 2015) (in Ukrainian)
  11. Ukraine MPs back ban on Nazi and Communist propaganda, BBC News. 9 April 2015
  12. The City Council will allocate 20 million for the construction of "Victory", SQ (10 November 2015) (in Russian)
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