Following the fall of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 in 1991 and the subsequent Ukrainian independence, some of the stations were re-named to more neutral equivalents, sometimes avoiding reference to significant Soviet institutions and their leaders. In addition to the re-naming of the line to its current title with the subsequent name change at the Kholodna Hora station, two other stations were renamed, the last of which occurred in 2004.

• Dzerzhynska → Universytet (1984–1993), named after the University of Kharkiv.
• Barabashova → Akademika Barabashova
  Akademika Barabashova (Kharkiv Metro)
  The Akademika Barabashova is a station on Kharkiv Metro's Saltivska Line. The station was opened on August 11, 1984. Station was named after Soviet Russian astronomer Nikolai P. Barabashov...
  
   (1984–2003).

Transfers

Following the traditional Soviet metro planning, the second line (Saltivska Line) is crossed by two other line segments at high traffic locations. Currently, the Saltivska Line's two transfer stations with the Kholodnohirsko–Zavodska Line (red line) and the Oleksiivska Line (green line) are at the southwestern terminus of the line. Specifically, the Saltivska Line has two transfer stations:

#	Transfer to	At	Opened
	Radianska (Kholodnohirsko–Zavodska Line)	Istorychnyi Muzei Istorychnyi Muzei (Kharkiv Metro) The Istorychnyi Myzei or Istorichesky Muzei is a station on Kharkiv Metro's Saltivska Line. The station was opened on August 10, 1984 and is currently the southwestern-most terminus of the Saltivska Line...	August 10, 1984
	Derzhprom Derzhprom (Kharkiv Metro) Derzhprom is a station on Kharkiv Metro's Oleksiivska Line. The station opened on May 6, 1995....  (Oleksiivska Line)	Universytet	May 6, 1995

Technical specifications

Just like with 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...

, government planning agencies allowed for a maximum of five carriage trains that would fit on the 100 metres (328.1 ft) station platforms without any modification to the station structure. Specifically, 20 five-carriage trains are assigned to serve the Saltivska Line. The Saltivska Line is the first in the system to use the 81-714/717 wagon models that have become the most widespread in the former USSR and Eastern Europe. It is serviced by the Depot-2 "Saltivske," located immediately after the metro bridge.

Future extension

Since its latest extension in 1986, the Saltivska Line is the third in the system in terms of length. It has a total of eight stations in operation, although a further four are in the early planning stages: the Druzhby Narodiv station is planned northwards from the line's current terminus Heroiv Pratsi; eastwards from the Akademika Barabashova station, a three station segment is planned; as well as a southwestern extension at the other end of the Saltivska Line at Ploshcha Urytsky and Zhovtneva, respectfully. However, these planned additions would be in the long term perspective at least, considering that no official initiative to begin the construction at either ends was outlined in the "Oblast Program of Construction and the Expansion of the Kharkiv Metropoliten, 2007-2012."