Vasylkivska is station on Kiev Metro

Kiev Metro

The Kiev Metro is a metro system that is the mainstay of Kiev's public transport. It was the first rapid transit system in Ukraine and the third one built in the USSR . It now has three lines with a total length of 63.7 kilometres and 49 stations...

's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line

Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line

The Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line , is the second line of the Kiev Metro, first opened in 1976, it extended northwards along the right bank of the Dnieper river and began deviating from the river towards the southwest. As the current stations were built in the 1970s and 80s, architecturally the...

. It is named after the street which leads to Vasylkiv

Vasylkiv

Vasylkiv is a city located on the Stuhna River in the Kiev Oblast in central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Vasylkivskyi Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast. A location with an over 1000 years history, it was incorporated as a...

, south-west to capital Kiev. The station was opened on 15 December 2010.

History

The station was planned to open late 2008. This was later rescheduled to March 2009. It was again postponed to Independence Day August 2009. On May 12, 2010 it was announced the station was expected to open by the end of 2010. The first trial run of a train took place on November 5.