The Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line , is the second line of the Kiev Metro

Kiev Metro

The Kiev Metro is a metro system that is the mainstay of Kiev's public transport. It was the first rapid transit system in Ukraine and the third one built in the USSR . It now has three lines with a total length of 63.7 kilometres and 49 stations...

, first opened in 1976, it extended northwards along the right bank of the Dnieper river and began deviating from the river towards the southwest. As the current stations were built in the 1970s and 80s, architecturally the line shows some of the best examples of late-Soviet architectural features. It is generally coloured blue on the maps.

Timeline

Segment	Date opened	Length
Maidan Nezalezhnosti Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Kiev Metro) Maidan Nezalezhnosti is a station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line. The station was opened on December 17, 1976, and is named after Kiev's Maidan Nezalezhnosti on the Khreschatyk street. It was designed by N. Kolomiiets, I. Maslenkov, M. Syrkyn, and F... , Poshtova Ploshcha Poshtova Ploshcha (Kiev Metro) Poshtova Ploshcha is a station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line. The station was opened on December 17, 1976, and is named after Kiev's Poshtova Square near the Dnieper's embankment in the historic Podil neighbourhood. It was designed by A.S. Krushynskyi, T.A. Tselykovska, I.L.... , Kontraktova Ploshcha Kontraktova Ploshcha (Kiev Metro) Kontraktova Ploshcha is a station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line. The station was opened on December 17, 1976, and is named after Kiev's Kontraktova Square in the historic Podil neighbourhood. It was designed by B.I. Pryimak, I.K. Maslenynkov, and F.M. Zaremba...	17 December 1976	2.32 km
Tarasa Shevchenka Tarasa Shevchenka (Kiev Metro) Tarasa Shevchenka is a station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line. The station was opened on December 19, 1980 in the northern part of the historic Podil neighbourhood and is named after the famous Ukrainian poet, writer, and painter, Taras Shevchenko. It was designed by T.A.... , Petrivka Petrivka (Kiev Metro) Petrivka is a station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line. The station was opened on December 19, 1980 in the Petrivka neighbourhood of the Podilskyi Raion of Kiev near Petrivka railway station. It was designed by I.L. Maslenkov, T.A. Tselikovska, A.S. Krushynskyi, and F.M.... , Obolon Obolon (Kiev Metro) Obolon is a station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line. The station was opened on December 19, 1980 in the southern part of the Obolon Raion of Kiev. It was designed by T.A. Tselikovska, A.S. Krushynskyi, and A. Pratsiuk...	19 December 1980	4.40 km
Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho (Kiev Metro) Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho is a station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line. The station was opened on December 19, 1981, and is named after the writer Leo Tolstoy. It was designed by N.A. Levchuk and V.B. Zhezheryn.... , Olimpiiska	19 December 1981	1.70 km
Minska Minska (Kiev Metro) Minska is a station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line. The station was opened on November 6, 1982 in the Obolonskyi Raion of Kiev. It was designed by I.L. Maslenkov, T.A. Tselikovska, and F.M. Zaremba... , Heroiv Dnipra Heroiv Dnipra (Kiev Metro) Heroiv Dnipra is a station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line. The station was opened on November 6, 1982 in the Obolonskyi Raion of Kiev and was designed by G.D. Andreev. The Metro station is named after the street directly above it....	6 November 1982	2.35 km
Palats "Ukrayina", Lybidska Lybidska (Kiev Metro) Lybidska is a metro station located below the Dzerzhynska Square. It was the southmost terminus on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line from 1984 till 2010 for 26 years. The station was opened on December 30, 1984. It was designed by Ernest Kotkov, V.I.Ezhov, A.S. Krushynskyi, T.A....	30 December 1984	2.43 km
Demiivska Demiivska (Kiev Metro) Demiivska is the first station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line's Holosiiv-Teremky extension opened on December 15, 2010. It is situated on the "40-richcha Zhovtnya " avenue... , Holosiivska Holosiivska (Kiev Metro) Holosiivska is the second station on the Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line's Holosiiv-Teremky extension. It opened on December 15, 2010. The station is situated in the Holosiiv Raion near the Holosiivska Square.... , Vasylkivska Vasylkivska (Kiev Metro) Vasylkivska is station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line. It is named after the street which leads to Vasylkiv, south-west to capital Kiev. The station was opened on 15 December 2010.-History:...	15 December 2010	3.80 km
Total:	15 stations	17.00 km

Name changes

Station	Previous name(s)	Years
Maidan Nezalezhnosti Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Kiev Metro) Maidan Nezalezhnosti is a station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line. The station was opened on December 17, 1976, and is named after Kiev's Maidan Nezalezhnosti on the Khreschatyk street. It was designed by N. Kolomiiets, I. Maslenkov, M. Syrkyn, and F...	Ploshcha Kalinina	1976 – 1977
	Ploshcha Zhovtnevoi Revolutsii	1977 – 1991
Kontraktova Ploshcha Kontraktova Ploshcha (Kiev Metro) Kontraktova Ploshcha is a station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line. The station was opened on December 17, 1976, and is named after Kiev's Kontraktova Square in the historic Podil neighbourhood. It was designed by B.I. Pryimak, I.K. Maslenynkov, and F.M. Zaremba...	Chervona Ploshcha	1976 – 1990
Obolon Obolon (Kiev Metro) Obolon is a station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line. The station was opened on December 19, 1980 in the southern part of the Obolon Raion of Kiev. It was designed by T.A. Tselikovska, A.S. Krushynskyi, and A. Pratsiuk...	Prospekt Korniychuka	1980 – 1990
Palats "Ukrayina"	Chervonoarmiyska	1984 – 1993
Lybidska Lybidska (Kiev Metro) Lybidska is a metro station located below the Dzerzhynska Square. It was the southmost terminus on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line from 1984 till 2010 for 26 years. The station was opened on December 30, 1984. It was designed by Ernest Kotkov, V.I.Ezhov, A.S. Krushynskyi, T.A....	Dzerzhynska	1984 – 1993
Olimpiiska	Respublikansky Stadion	1981 – 2011

Transfers

#	Transfer to	At
	Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line The Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line , is the first line of the Kiev Metro, dating back to 1960. It includes some of the system's more historically significant stations, like Arsenalna, which at 105.5 meters is the deepest in the world and the next station Dnipro, which although the tunnel follows a...	Maidan Nezalezhnosti Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Kiev Metro) Maidan Nezalezhnosti is a station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line. The station was opened on December 17, 1976, and is named after Kiev's Maidan Nezalezhnosti on the Khreschatyk street. It was designed by N. Kolomiiets, I. Maslenkov, M. Syrkyn, and F...
	Syretsko-Pecherska Line Syretsko-Pecherska Line The Syretsko-Pecherska Line is third line of the Kiev Metro, first opened in 1989. It extends the metro system southeast along the right bank of the Dnieper River before crossing it on a covered bridge and then east from there. The northern section extends further northwestwards. The line is one...	Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho (Kiev Metro) Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho is a station on Kiev Metro's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line. The station was opened on December 19, 1981, and is named after the writer Leo Tolstoy. It was designed by N.A. Levchuk and V.B. Zhezheryn....

Rolling stock

The line shares the Obolon' (#2) depot with the Syretsko-Pecherska Line

Syretsko-Pecherska Line

The Syretsko-Pecherska Line is third line of the Kiev Metro, first opened in 1989. It extends the metro system southeast along the right bank of the Dnieper River before crossing it on a covered bridge and then east from there. The northern section extends further northwestwards. The line is one...

. Presently 32 five-carriage trains are assigned to it.

Recent developments and future plans

A major extension of the line to the southwestern regions of Holosiiv and Teremky has long been planned since the 1980s, however due to the difficult conditions under the Lybid River

Lybid River

Lybid is a small river in Kiev, Ukraine, a right tributary of the Dnieper, flowing within the "Right Bank" part of the city, just to the west of the historic center...

and financial shortages, all work was frozen in the early 1990s and the completed sections were flooded.

Resumed in 2002, the project will conclude of seven stations and should be finished by 2020. Demiyivska, Holosiivska and Vasylkivska were opened December 15th 2010; after a delay of two years because of lack of funds. The second stage will include the stations Vystakovyi Tsentr, Ipodrom and Teremki which will bring the line along the Akademika glushkova avenue past the Kiev Ring Road. The final stage may finish with the station Odeska and a new depot nearby. A considered option is a two station branch after Ipodrom northwards to two further stations:Avtovokzal Teremky and Vulytsia Kreisera Avrory.

External link

Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line, Kiev Metro official site