Kholodna Hora (Kharkiv Metro)

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Kholodna Hora (Ukrainian: Холодна Гора; Russian: Холодная Гора) is a station on Kharkiv Metro's Kholodnogorsko-Zavodskaya Line. The station is presently the western terminus of the line and was opened on August 23, 1975. It is located under the Poltavsky Shosse, in the middle of the Kholodna Hora residential district in the western part of Kharkiv.

Until October 8, 1995, the station and the street on which it is located were known as Vulytsia Sverdlova , literally Street of Sverdlov. Also, a bas-relief portrait of Yakov Sverdlov was located on the station, later removed, which is ironic because two relief composite architectural items, which depicted scenes from the Velikiy Oktiabr and the Triumph of the Revolution, are still located on the station.

The station is put low underground, is a pillar-trispan with many white marble columns. The floor of the station has been finished off with red granite. It was designed by V.A Spivachyk; engineered by P.A. Bochikashvili and N.D. Ivanova; and decorated by V.I. Lenchin, P.P Yurchenko, and I.P. Yastrebov.

The Kholodna Hora station has two vestibules that are directly connected to the station and two exits, which have pedestrian cross tunnels under the Poltavsky Shosse. The large amount of passenger traffics on the station is accounted for by many bus routes being passing nearby, which carry passengers to the neighboring towns and villages.

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