Teatralna ( uk, Театральна) is a station currently under construction on the
Dnipro Metro
The Dnipro Metro ( uk, Дніпровський метрополітен) is a single-line rapid transit system that serves the city of Dnipro, the fourth largest city in Ukraine by population. The metro was the fourth system constructed in Ukra ...
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Tsentralno–Zavodska Line. Deputy Mayor of
Dnipro
Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...
Mykhailo Lysenko stated in December 2020 that it was estimated to be opened in 2024.
The station is named for its proximity next to the city's drama theatre and the theatre of opera and ballet.
History
The station was already envisioned in the 1980 official planning of the city's metro lines.
[The metro is being designed in Dnepropetrovsk (Metrostroy magazine No.5 1980)]
Dnipro Metropoliten (unfficial website of Dnipro Metro) It was originally scheduled to be opened in 1993 as Park Chkalova ( uk, Парк Чкалова))., group=nb (the 1980 plans referred to the station as "Teatralna"
), the station's construction was delayed significantly after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Budget issues and economic instability in Ukraine further delayed the station's opening.
As an expansion of the current Dnipro Metro the station was projected to be opened by 2015. But construction was stopped because the tender to select the contractor was stopped by the city council in August 2015.
[The metro is not being built in Dnipropetrovsk because Filatov and Korban require "kickbacks", - Pashchenko]
Ukrainian News Agency
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(17 August 2015)
The station is located deep underground in the center of
Dnipro
Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...
, and is located right after the line's current terminus, , and , another station currently under construction. In 2014 it was not known what final form the station would take on; whether it would be a
deep column or a
single-vault station
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[ The station will be of the single-vault type.]
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External links
* (Images of the station under construction)
{{Dnipro Metro
Dnipro Metro stations
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2024