Sportyvna (, ) or Sportivnaya () is a station on the

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Kholodnohirsko–Zavodska Line The Kholodnohirsko–Zavodska line (, ) is a line of the Kharkiv Metro, serving Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.FC Metalist Kharkiv Football Club Metalist Kharkiv, also known as Football Club Metalist Kharkov or FC Metalist Kharkov ( ), is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Kharkiv that plays in the Ukrainian First League during the 2023– ...

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, the biggest in Kharkiv. During the planning stage the station was to be called ''Stadion''. The station is lain shallow underground and is a single-vault design with a rounded ceiling. The ceiling is covered with 6,200 triangular, cement structures, each having a weight of about 100 kilograms. The lighting in the station comes from lamps hanging from the cement structures. The partitions the tracks have been held with are made of black natural stone and the floor has been paved with flags of polished red granite, into which zigzag patterns, made from light coloured stone, have been introduced near the end of the platform. Also, small black slates of marble from

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line the railings of the stairs which lead into the station vestibule. In 1995, the Sportivna station became a transfer station to Metrobudivnykiv on the

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 ...

, with which it forms a complex. Stairs leading to the transfer tunnel are located in the center of the Sportyvna station platform. Located not far from the station is one of Kharkiv's largest markets and the No.3 bus station, from which buses take directions around the city and to international directions, including the ''Kharkiv-

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External links

Sportivnaya on Gortransport Kharkiv site
{{Kharkiv Metro Kharkiv Metro stations Railway stations in Ukraine opened in 1975