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Saltivska line
Overview
Status	Operational
Termini	Istorychnyi Muzei (southern) Saltivska (northern)
Stations	8
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	Kharkiv Metro
Operator(s)	Kharkivskyi metropoliten
Rolling stock	81-717/714, 81-7036/7037
Daily ridership	380,250 (daily)
History
Opened	10 August 1984; 40 years ago (1984-08-10)
Technical
Line length	10.2 kilometres (6.3 mi)
Track gauge	5 ft (1,524 mm)
Route diagram Legend Skhidna Saltivka Prospekt Traktorobudivnykiv Hvardiitsiv-Shyronyntsiv Druzhby Narodiv Saltivska Studentska Akademika Pavlova Akademika Barabashova Depot TCh2 Saltivske Metro Bridge over Kharkiv River Kyivska Yaroslava Mudroho Universytet (Derzhprom) Istorychnyi Muzei ( Maidan Konstytutsii ) Service tunnel to Line 1 Kharkiv River Ploshcha Urytskoho Lopan River Zhovtneva Novozhanove This diagram: view talk edit

The Saltivska line (Ukrainian: Салтівська лінія, Russian: Салтовская линия) is the second line of the Kharkiv Metro operating since 1984, serving Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine. The Saltivska Line is the shortest line segment of the system, at 10.2 kilometres (6.3 mi), with a total of eight stations. Unique to the Kharkiv Metro is the Saltivska line's metro bridge, which passes above the Kharkiv River between the Kyivska and Akademika Barabashova stations.

Geographically, the Saltivska line cuts Kharkiv on a northeast–southwest axis, and provides subway access to much of Saltivka (for which the line is named). It connects the city's largest residential neighborhood with the Constitution Square and Freedom Square in the city center. The Saltivska line is second behind the Kholodnohirsko–Zavodska Line with a daily ridership of 380,250 passengers. There are current proposals that would expand the Saltivska line to include an extra six stations and a split line segment, although these are only in the planning stage and they are not scheduled to start construction until the mid-2020s at the earliest.

History

Since the late 1970s, an expansion of the Kharkiv Metro system was planned towards the then newly developed Saltivka neighborhood, located away from the industrial neighborhoods of the city. Accordingly, on April 9, 1976, the Soviet government adopted a plan to construct a second line on the Kharkiv Metro. Owing to the hilly city landscape towards the southwestern terminus of the Station, the line's first three stations are located deep underground, with the Yaroslava Mudroho station becoming the deepest station of the system at 30 metres (98 ft) underground. The rest of the stations on the line were built close to the surface, due to their proximity to the Kharkiv River. Construction on the line's second segment began in 1981, continuing on until the last three stations (all located within the confines of the Saltivka neighborhood) were opened on October 24, 1986.

Timeline

Name changes

Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent Ukrainian independence, some of the stations were renamed to more neutral equivalents, sometimes avoiding reference to significant Soviet institutions and their leaders. In addition, the station named after Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was renamed in 2024 to comply with the law "On the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy".

• Dzerzhynska (1984–1993) → Universytet, named after the University of Kharkiv
• Barabashova (1984–2003) → Akademika Barabashova
• Pushkinska (1984–2024) → Yaroslava Mudroho, named after Grand Prince of Kiev Yaroslav the Wise
• Heroiv Pratsi (1975–2024) → Saltivska, named after the Saltivka neighborhood

Stations

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 located in the southwestern part of the line. Specifically, the Saltivska line has two transfer stations:

#	Transfer to	At	Opened
	Maidan Konstytutsii (Kholodnohirsko–Zavodska line)	Istorychnyi Muzei	August 10, 1984
	Derzhprom (Oleksiivska line)	Universytet	May 6, 1995

Technical specifications

Just like with the Kyiv Metro, government planning agencies allowed for a maximum of five carriage trains that would fit on the 100 metres (330 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 Saltivska; 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 Urytskoho and Zhovtneva, respectively. 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."

Notes

1. Approximate length, includes only operational passenger track length, does not include service track length.

References

1. ^ "Saltovskaya liniya". Commercial holding "Megapolis" (in Russian). Retrieved 19 May 2011.
2. ^ Butkovsky, Andrey (2008). "Metro. Saltovskaya Line". Kharkov transportny (in Russian). Retrieved 19 May 2011.
3. Butkovsky, Andrey (2005). "Stations and constructions. Metrobridge". Kharkov transportny (in Russian). Retrieved 19 May 2011.
4. "How everything began". Official site KP "Kharkivskyi metropoliten" (in Ukrainian). metro.kharkiv.ua. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
5. Butkovsky, Andrey (2005). "Stations and constructions. Station "Pushkinskaya"". Kharkov transportny (in Russian). Retrieved 19 May 2011.
6. "Following the street: in Kharkiv they will rename the metro station "Pushkinska", — Terekhov". Focus (in Ukrainian). 30 January 2024. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
   "In Kharkiv, the metro stations «Pushkin» and «South Station» were renamed". Ukrinform (in Ukrainian). 29 April 2024. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
7. "Kharkiv renames 3 metro stations, nearly 50 streets to 'de-Russify' public space". The Kyiv Independent. 26 July 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
8. Schwandl, Robert. "KHARKIV Metro (Kharkov)". UrbanRail.Net. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
9. "Program of the construction of the metro". Official site of the KP "Kharkivskyi metropoliten" (in Ukrainian). metro.kharkov.ua. Retrieved 2 June 2011.

v t e Kharkiv Metro
List of stations
Line 1 (Kholodnohirsko–Zavodska line)	Kholodna Hora Vokzalna Tsentralnyi Rynok Maidan Konstytutsii Levada Sportyvna Zavodska Turboatom Palats Sportu Armiiska Imeni O.S. Maselskoho Traktornyi Zavod Industrialna
Line 2 (Saltivska line)	Istorychnyi Muzei Universytet Yaroslava Mudroho Kyivska Akademika Barabashova Akademika Pavlova Studentska Saltivska
Line 3 (Oleksiivska line)	Odeska Derzhavinska Metrobudivnykiv Zakhysnykiv Ukrainy Arkhitektora Beketova Derzhprom Naukova Botanichnyi Sad 23 Serpnia Oleksiivska Peremoha
Future lines Line 4 (Saltivsko-Zavodska line) Bridges Kharkiv Metro Bridge

• Kharkiv Metro lines
• Railway lines opened in 1984