Peremoha (, ; literally, Victory) is the 30th station of the

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, located on the system's

Oleksiivska Line The Oleksiivska line (, ) is the third and newest line of the Kharkiv Metro that was opened in 1995. The Oleksiivska line is the second longest in the system at and contains a total of nine stations, with Peremoha (Kharkiv Metro), Peremoha being ...

. The station is located immediately north of the Oleksiivska station, and is the line's current terminus. The station's official opening was on 19 August 2016 by

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.Poroshenko opens new subway station in Kharkiv

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(19 August 2016) The station welcomed its first passengers on 25 August 2016.The first passengers at the metro station "Victory" (photo)
SQ (25 August 2016) Peremoha is named after the Peremohy Avenue, which runs through the vicinity. During the early planning stages the station was referred to as Prospekt Peremohy (). The station is the first Kharkiv metro station with disabled access.

History

Construction of the station began in 1992, and since then construction was stopped numerous times. Under the initiative of

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used to be then celebrated on 9 May (in Ukraine), and which would have been in time for the

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football championship. However, new funding problems pushed the completion date back to 23 August 2012, then again another year further to 23 August 2013, and then again to 23 August 2014 (Kharkiv

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IN KHARKIV METRO PROJECT "PEREMOHA" IS THROUGH LEGAL REVIEW DISCOMMUNIZATION

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holiday celebrated on 9 May)

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theme. In April 2015, the parliament of Ukraine outlawed Soviet and Communist symbols, street names and monuments, in a set of

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laws. In May 2015 Ukraine abolished Victory Day and replaced the holiday with

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(also celebrated on 9 May).«Велику Вітчизняну війну» замінили на «Другу світову» — закон
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. 09.04.2015 Hence, the station's interior was slightly changed to comply with the April 2015 decommunization laws.The City Council will allocate 20 million for the construction of "Peremoha"
SQ (10 November 2015) The station is designed to be two-tiered with the upper balconies used as an underground passenger walkway from either side of the

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lines. After the Peremoha station's completion, the Oleksiivska Line depot is planned to be constructed to the north of the station. Also planned is a new intercity bus station, which would lighten the traffic load upon the Tsentralnyi Rynok's bus station.

References

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