Dnipropetrovsk Metro encyclopedia topics

History

In 1979, the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union affirmed the Central Committee of the Communist Party's action to allow the Gosplan (government planning agency) and the communication and transportation construction ministries to conduct research on construction a metropolitan system in Dnipropetrovsk.

The construction itself was started on March 15, 1982 following a decree by the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. These plans were realized when the system's first line segment opened to the public on December 29, 1995.

Facts and numbers

Today, the metro system consists of a total of of track and six stations. The line starts at the Vokzalna station (Central Railway Station) in the east and ends at the Komunarivska station in the western part of the city. The system is open from 5:30 in the morning till 23:00 at night, serving a daily passenger traffic of about 37,500 passengers.

Currently the metro has only one line, Tsentralno-Zavods’ka with a total length of . The stations of the Dnipropetrovsk Metro system were built and constructed following the typical Soviet metro palace style. However, being built during the economic recession of early 1990s, the decoration of the Metro stations lack the excessive vividness found in the Soviet time build metro.

Out of the six stations, five are located deep underground and one is placed near the surface. Four of the deep stations are single vaults built on Leningrad Technology and one is a Pylon. The only shallow station is a pillar trispan. Initially, the metro trains carried 5 train cars each, but as the passenger ridership declined, the number of cars was reduced to three.

Expansion plans

Currently, three stations are under construction (beginning at the Vokzalna station moving towards the city center): the Teatral’na station (near the Theatre of Opera and Ballet), the Tsentral’na station, and the Muzeina station (another variant of the name is Zhovtneva Ploshcha). The construction is expected to end in 2008. The stations Tsentral’na and Muzeina are expected to be in operation sometime after 2008.

A new development plan was unveiled in January 2008 which called for the construction of two new stations before 2012. The stations, named Parus and Parus-2 respectively, will be located to the immediate west of the westernmost Komunarivska station.

After the first additions to the line segment, the total length of system's only line is expected to be , with 9 stations. A second line is planned to cross the Dnieper River. A long-term perspective plan of the Dnipropetrovsk Metro system is to have of track on three lines.