Peremoha ( uk, Перемога, ; literally, Victory) is the 30th station of the Kharkiv Metro, located on the system's

Oleksiivska Line The Oleksiivska line ( uk, Олексіївська лінія, russian: Алексеевская линия) 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 ...

. The station is located immediately north of the Oleksiivska station, and is the line's new 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 Prospect Peremohy road, which runs through the vicinity. (During the early planning stages the station was referred to as Prospekt Peremohy ( uk, Проспект Перемоги).) 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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, construction work on the station began again in 2009, with an opening date of 2010, although it was later set back a couple of years due to inadequate funding. A new date was set at 7 or 8 May 2012, which would have had significance since

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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. (23 August is Kharkiv's city day.IN KHARKIV METRO PROJECT "VICTORY" IS THROUGH LEGAL REVIEW DISCOMMUNIZATION
5 Kanal (13 August 2015) ) Architecturally, the station was planned to be modeled in the (former

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holiday celebrated on 9 May)

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. So in May 2015 Ukraine abolished Victory Day and replaced the holiday with

Victory Day over Nazism in World War II Victory Day over Nazism in World War II ( uk, День перемоги над нацизмом у Другій світовій війні, translit=Den peremohy nad natsyzmom u Druhii svitovii viini) or Victory Day ( uk, День перемог ...

(also celebrated on 9 May).«Велику Вітчизняну війну» замінили на «Другу світову» — закон
. Fakty. ICTV. 09.04.2015Депутати врегулювали питання про відзначення в Україні перемоги над нацизмом
.

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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 "Victory"
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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Prospect. The station's direct vicinity includes a market,

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and

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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

{{Kharkiv Metro Kharkiv Metro stations Railway stations opened in 2016