Donetsk Metro
48°00′10″N 37°48′19″E / 48.002778°N 37.805278°E
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| Native name | Ukrainian: Донецьке метро (Donets'ke metro) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transit type | Rapid transit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line number | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of stations | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Character | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| System length | 9.6 km (6.0 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Donetsk Metro (Ukrainian: Донецьке метро, romanized: Donets'ke metro) is a rapid transit system construction project in Donetsk. Construction began in 1993 and was suspended in 2011. If finished, it could become the fifth metro in Ukraine (after the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Kryvyi Rih metros). Unspecified plans for building instead an all-new light rail surface transit system are announced.
History
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When the city of Donetsk reached the million inhabitants mark in the 1980s, it was entitled to build its own metro system, which was designed to follow the usual layout in the
In 1995, due to the poor financial situation of the Donetsk municipality, the completion date was postponed to 2005. On 5 September 1997, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Valeriy Pustovoitenko, ordered that the first line of the system should be open to the public in 8 years (2005). In 2000, the first work on four of the six underground stations began. However, the financial situation of Donetsk did not improve. In June 2003, the financial problems affected the metro workers - after seven months of work, no more wages could be paid.[2] By then nearly 300 million hryvnias (about 48 million euros) had been spent on the project.
In 2004 the Ukrainian government assured further means for the completion of the metro by 2010. By 2007, this seemed over-optimistic due to the slow pace of construction work. However, it later emerged that
In 2009, funding of the project was disrupted so severely that construction workers staged several strikes to demand payment of their salaries.[3] The city mayor Oleksandr Lukianchenko informed on 22 May that the planned 500 million hryvnia (~$65 mln) for the metro the city of Donetsk has never received.[4]
In 2011, the city mayor announced that construction was to be suspended indefinitely due to continuing underfunding and inability to finish a first line in time for
In 2012 the Vice-Prime-Minister
The work on the metro line has completely stopped in 2014 due to
It was reported in 2022 that the incompleted metro communications were at risk of flooding from the sealed coal mines. Hence, their construction was suspended for an indefinite time.[9]
The original project
The first underground line of the system, which will carry the name Proletarsko-Kyivska Line (Ukrainian: Пролетарсько-Київська), is to be 9.6 km (6.0 mi) long and have six stations: Proletarska (Пролетарська), Chumakovska (Чумаковська), Chervone Mistechko (Червоне містечко), Mushketovska (Мушкетовська), Livoberezhna (Лiвобережна), and Politekhnichnyi Instytut (Полiтехнiчний iнститут).
The system's red line, Proletarsko-Kyivska, is planned to extend 21 km (13 mi) with 15 stations. Additionally, the blue line, Shakhtarsko-Makiyivska Line (Ukrainian: Шахтарсько-Макiївська), is planned to extend 25 km (16 mi). Finally, the green line, Petrovsko-Chervonohvardiiska Line (Ukrainian: Петровсько-Червоногвардiйська), is to have 14 stations. In its final stage, the Donetsk Metro is planned to be 70 km (43 mi) long, with a total of 46 stations.
References
- ^ "О Донецком метрополитене". летопись Донбасса (in Russian). 2018-11-24. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
- ^ "Донецк теряет подземный транспорт — DSnews.ua". www.dsnews.ua (in Russian). 2005-04-11. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
- ^ "Несбывшаяся мечта: Как проект метро в Донецке стал взрывоопасным". novosti.dn.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-10-04.
- ^ "(home)". Donetsk Metro.
- ^ "У Донецьку припиняють зводити метро" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2013-05-02.
- ^ a b "Донецьке метро буде наземним" [Donetsk metro will be at ground-level]. Ukrayinska Pravda. April 18, 2012.
- ^ "Донецьке метро буде наземним" [Donetsk metro will be at ground-level]. UNIAN. April 18, 2012.
- ^ "Commission to assess the state and prospects of further development of the Donetsk Metro". Archived from the original on 2015-01-22. Retrieved 2015-11-19.
- ^ "Несбывшаяся мечта: Как проект метро в Донецке стал взрывоопасным". novosti.dn.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-10-04.
External links
- (in Russian) metro.donetsk.ua - Unofficial Donetsk metro website