Sportyvna (Kharkiv Metro)

The Sportivnaya or Sportyvna ( _uk. Спортивна; _ru. Спортивная) is a station on Kharkiv Metro's Kholodnogorsko-Zavodskaya Line. The station was opened on August 23, 1975. It is located in the southwestern part of the city's center, beneath the "Plechanivska Vulytsya" and the "Derzhavinska Vulytsya" junction. The station received its name from the word "sport", due to the neighbouring FC Metalist Kharkiv Stadium, the biggest in Kharkiv. During the planning stage the station was to be called "Stadium".

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 is 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 Uzbekistan line the railings of the stairs which lead into the station vestibule.

In 1995, the Sportivnaya station became a transfer station to the Metrostroitelei Imeni G.I. Vashchenko on the Alekseevskaya Line, with which it forms a complex. Stairs leading to the transfer tunnel are located in the center of the Sportivnaya station platform.

Located not far from the station is one of Kharkiv's largest markets and the №3 bus station, from which buses take directions around the city and to international directions, including the "Kharkiv-Shebekino" line.

External links

*ru icon [http://gortransport.kharkov.ua/index.htm?/subway/stations/stations.php?subway_station_page=6 Sportivnaya on Gortransport Kharkiv site] -