Prospekt Haharina (Kharkiv Metro)

Prospekt Haharina
Kharkiv Metro Station

The Station Hall
Coordinates 49°58′51″N 36°14′36″E / 49.98083°N 36.24333°E / 49.98083; 36.24333Coordinates: 49°58′51″N 36°14′36″E / 49.98083°N 36.24333°E / 49.98083; 36.24333
Owned by Kharkiv Metro
Line(s) Kholodnohirsko–Zavodska Line
Platforms 1
Tracks 2
Construction
Structure type underground
Platform levels 1
History
Opened 1975-08-23
Electrified Yes
Services
Preceding station   Kharkiv Metro   Following station
Kholodnohirsko-Zavodska Line
toward Proletarska

The Prospekt Haharina or Prospekt Gagarina (Ukrainian: Проспект Гагаріна; Russian: Проспект Гагарина) is a station on Kharkiv Metro's Kholodnohirsko–Zavodska Line. Opened on August 23, 1975, it is located in the southern part of the city's center, at the beginning of the Prospekt Haharina street, for which the station is named, and near the Kharkiv-Levada Railway Station and the nearby autostation, which accounts for the station's fairly large passenger traffic.

During the planning stage of the metro station, the station was to be called Levada. Also, the station was to be decorated in traditional Ukrainian motifs and lettering. On the walls there were supposed to be mosaics depicting grasses and flowers. However, the oblast governing board did not approve of the plans, and some time before the grand opening of the station, the architectural details were taken off, to be replaced with a more standard type of station.

The station is lain shallow underground and is a pillar-trispan, with square columns. The station itself was designed by V.A Spivachyk and P.G. Chechelnitskiy; engineered by P.A. Bochikashvili and V.S. Kotov; and decorated by A.F. Pronin and G.V. Tischenko. For the most part, blank marble was used, although grey granite was also used for the background of the station's name, which is seen in large aluminum letters. The lighting comes from groups of lamps placed in between the "ribs" (bars) of the ceiling. The floor has been paved with polished flags of grey and black granite.

Coming from the side of the station vestibule, the walls are made of light-rose coloured marble, Gazgan. The station has no escalators, since it is put shallow, and instead has wide stairs, above which are installed architectural stained glass windows depicting the triumph of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin.

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