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| {{Infobox Public transit | |||
| |name = Kharkiv Metro<br>Харківський метрополітен<br>''Harkivs'kyi metropoliten'' | |||
| |image = Metro Kharkov Map Russian Ukrainian.PNG|thumbnail|Map of the Kharkiv Metro. | |||
| |imagesize= 275px | |||
| |locale = ], ] | |||
| |transit_type = Underground Metro | |||
| |began_operation = ] | |||
| |system_length = {{km to mi|35.4|abbr=yes|precision=1}} | |||
| |lines = 3 | |||
| |stations = 28 | |||
| |ridership = +1 ] | |||
| |track_gauge = | |||
| |employees = | |||
| |operator = Ministry of Transport of Ukraine | |||
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| ]'' station of Kharkiv Metro]] | |||
| The '''Kharkiv Metro''' ({{lang-uk|Харківське метро}}; {{lang-ru|Харьковское метро}}) is the ] that serves the city of ], the second largest city in ]. The metro was the second in Ukraine (after ]) and the fifth in the ] when it opened in 1975. | |||
| ==Lines and Stations== | |||
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| !#!!Name!!Opened!!Length!!Stations | |||
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| |style="background: red;"|1 | |||
| |style="text-align: left;"|] | |||
| |1975||17.3 km||13 | |||
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| |style="background: blue;"|2 | |||
| |style="text-align: left;"|] | |||
| |1984||10.3 km||8 | |||
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| |style="background: green;"|3 | |||
| |style="text-align: left;"|] | |||
| |1995||7.9 km||7 | |||
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| |style="text-align: left;"|'''Total:''' | |||
| | ||'''35.4km'''||'''28''' | |||
| |} | |||
| <small>(''The colours in the table correspond to the colours of the lines in the ].'')</small> | |||
| ==History== | |||
| Initial plans for a rapid transit system in Kharkiv were made when the city was a capital of the ]. However, after the capital moved to ] in 1934 and Kharkiv suffered heavy destruction during ], 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. | |||
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| Seven years later on ], ], the first eight-station segment of 10.4 kilometres was put into use. It is claimed that the metro does not have the beautiful and excessive decorations that stations in ] and ]{{Fact|date=May 2008}} Metros show, yet they do make the best of mid-1970s and later styles. | |||
| ==Facts and Numbers== | |||
| Currently, the Kharkiv Metro consists of 3 lines, 28 stations, and 35.4 kilometres of tracks. 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 till midnight, 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 28 stations are deep level stations and the remaining rest 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 ] article). | |||
| The metro is served by two depots which have a total of 320 carriages forming 59 five-carriage trains (all of the platforms are exactly 100 metres long). | |||
| The metro is subordinate to the ''Ministry of Transport of Ukraine'' and unlike the ], is not privatised and owned by a municipal company. In August 2005, the Ministry proposed to transfer the metro to the city administration. | |||
| ==See also== | |||
| * ] | |||
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| {{commonscat|Kharkiv Metro}} | |||
| ==External links== | |||
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| * — Popular site with resources and images {{ru icon}} | |||
| * — Description | |||
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| * — Photographs {{de icon}}/{{ru icon}} | |||
| * — Unofficial website {{ru icon}} | |||
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