Vokzalna (Kharkiv Metro)
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The Yuzhny Vokzal or Pivdennyy Vokzal (Ukrainian: Пiвденний вокзал; Russian: Южный вокзал) is a station on Kharkiv Metro's Kholodnogorsko-Zavodskaya Line. The station was opened on August 23, 1975. It is located beneath a square near Kharkiv's main railway station, Pivdennyy Vokzal, literally Southern Station, for which the metro station is named. From the station hall, two pedestrian tunnels lead directly to the control building of the railway station and to the post office and out-of-town ticket counters within the train station.
The station is lain deeply underground and is a pylon trivault, which is separated by arcades of tracks. The station itself was designed by V.A. Spivachuk, and engineered by Y.E. Kruk and Y.A. Korovkin. The floor has been finished off with grey and black flags of polished granite. The lighting comes from hidden niches under the curved ceilings.
In spite of its large depth, the Yuzhny Vokzal was moored by the open construction method. The local hydro-geological circumstances confronted the engineers with a particularly difficult task. Because of the type of clay in the ground, the earth around the station had to be frozen, a task which took five years to finish.
When the first section of the Kholodnogorsko-Zavodskaya line was opened, only four train wagons were used, the five train wagon appearing later. The stations on the line were built with room to expand from carrying four train wagons to five, all except the Yuzhny Vokzal station. When the expansion of the station came, the entrance to the areas for the workers of the metro, which was located in the train tunnel before, had to be somehow incorporated into the station.