Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has ordered the Ukrainian Finance Ministry to provide funds to open three new subway stations on the line to the Teremky residential area by the end of 2010, according to Petro Miroshnykov, the head of the Kyiv Metropoliten housing and utilities enterprise.
"Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has charged the Finance Ministry with allocating funds for putting these stations into operation," Miroshnykov told reporters on Tuesday.
He said the funds would total UAH 809 million, part of which will be allocated from the national budget, while the other part might be raised under a government credit.
As reported, the completion of the Demiyivska, Holosiyivska and Vasylkivska subway stations on the Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmoyska line of Kyiv Metropolitan to the Teremky residential area was scheduled for the end of 2008, and later rescheduled to March 2009. It was again put postponed, until May to coincide with Kyiv Day, and later on it was postponed until Independence Day in August 2009. Neither of the stations have opened yet.
