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Head of Kyiv City Administration Oleksandr Popov is confident that Kyiv city will manage to find funds to start building the subway line to the Troyeschyna district this year. 

“The construction [of the subway line to the Troyeschyna district] will start soon, and the finishing of the first phase is scheduled for late 2015,” he said on Thursday during a visit to the Ipodrom subway station, which is currently under construction.

He said that within one month ways of financing the said project will be worked out, and the required decisions on the start of construction of the line will be taken.

Popov also said the length of the first section of the subway line to the Troyeschyna district will be 7.2 kilometers, with five stations. Its cost will amount to Hr 4.2 billion. The subway line will go from Podil to the Raisuzhny residential area.

He said that after the completion of tunneling at the launch section of the Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska line of the Kyiv subway from the Ipodrom station to the Teremky station, the tunnellers would be used on the construction site of the new line to the Troyeschyna district.

Earlier Deputy Head of Kyiv City Administration Ruslan Kramarenko said that Kyiv plans at a tender to find a financial partner to build the subway line to the Troyeschyna district. A subsidiary of Russia’s Vnesheconombank – OJSC Federal Center for Project Financing – is drawing up a financial scheme, which is to be ready in April.

“In late April we plan to conduct an investment tender to attract a financial partner, using the scheme,” he said.

The city budget does not foresee funds for building the subway line to the Troyeschyna district.