In 2026, it is planned to open at least one station on the Syretsko-Pecherska line of the Kyiv metro in the direction of the Vynohradar residential area.
This was announced by Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko at a session of the Kyiv City Council during a discussion of issues related to the development of the metro, according to a correspondent for Lb.ua.
‘Next year, at least one station on the metro line in Vinogradar will be opened,’ Klitschko said.
He also noted that the work being carried out by the contractor on this line is budgeted until the end of this year and is being carried out according to plan.
Earlier, Klitschko predicted that two new stations would open in 2027, as stipulated in the contract with the contractor.
Metro in Vynohradar
- Kyiv planned to start building a connection to this residential area at the end of 2017, and if this had happened, by the end of 2020 the city would have received two new stations, ‘Mostytska’ and ‘Prospekt Pravdy’ (now ‘Varshavska’). The cost of construction was then estimated at over 11 billion hryvnias.
- In January 2018, the city announced a tender for two stations towards Vynohradar. Three companies wanted to participate in it. Two were admitted to the competition, but in the end it was cancelled because only one applicant submitted documents without violations. The tender was restarted, and Kyivmetrobud won. The company offered to build two stations for 12 million hryvnias less than expected.
- On 20 November 2018, Klitschko announced the start of construction. In March of the following year, the mayor said that the two stations would open in 2021. The first tunnel was built that same year, and Kyivmetrobud changed its supervisory board ahead of schedule due to the slow progress of the work.
- In January 2020, the company reported that the construction of the metro in Vynohradar was ‘catastrophically behind schedule’ and would be delayed by at least a year. At the same time, the court seized Kyivmetrobud's accounts due to embezzlement of funds for the construction of the metro in Vynohradar. It turned out that Kyivmetrobud officials had laundered interest from more than a billion of the budget allocated for the construction of the Syretsko-Pecherska metro line. They received a 95% advance payment for the construction and deposited part of this amount in a bank – 1.7 billion.
- In August 2020, Klitschko explained that the metro construction schedule was affected by the quarantine – foreign specialists could not come to Kyiv. He said that the first stations should open in December 2021. However, in December 2021, Kyivmetrobud applied to the court to postpone the completion date to May 2023.
- As a result, the metro stations have not yet opened, and in December 2023, the metro terminated its contract with the contractor. Kyivmetrobud had to return 4 billion hryvnias in advance payments.
- In April 2024, the court collected 139 million hryvnias from the contractor – this is the interest earned on the deposit.
- In August last year, the Kyiv Metro signed a contract to continue construction work. The winner of the tender was Avtostrada Group of Companies LLC. The construction work is to be completed within 30 months, and its cost is 13,785,000,000.00 hryvnias.
- The State Audit Service noted that the metro to Vynohradar will cost 8 billion hryvnias more than planned.