What this site is
kharkivmetro.org is an independent guide to the Kharkiv Metro: three lines, 30 stations, hours, free travel, shelters and how to get around. It is not the operator’s website and it is not affiliated with the Kharkiv Metro: we do not sell tickets and we cannot handle a complaint or a refund. For that, contact the metro itself.
What we do is put in one place a page for every station, a diagram of the lines, the timetable, a route planner and the sights you can reach by metro, written to be read on a phone. The site is funded by advertising.
What the October 2026 review found
On October 11, 2026 we checked every page against what the metro itself publishes, and several things had to change.
Interchanges. Each line page listed all six interchange stations on the network, when each line has only two, and interchange stations were shown as belonging to two lines. In Kharkiv that is not how it works: every interchange is a pair of separate stations joined by a walkway. Each station now shows its own line and where the walkway takes you.
Accessibility. We had written about ramps and lifts at newer stations. The operator says something different: passengers with reduced mobility should phone at least an hour ahead, and staff will escort them on a spare escalator. Only Peremoha has a lift.
Fares and hours. Travel has been free since May 24, 2022, until the mayor orders otherwise — not by a city council decision, as we had said. No QR tickets are sold at stations. The metro runs from 05:30 to 22:00, not until 22:30.
The diagram. The downloadable diagram still carried four station names changed in 2024, and it was not ours. We drew a new one with the current names.
And smaller things: the first section in 1975 had eight stations, as far as Turboatom; the Lokomotyv sports palace and the Zhuravlivka hydropark were listed at the wrong stations; and the cable car in Gorky Park has not run since 2022.
What is live and what is not
Nothing on this site is live. The metro does not publish real-time running data, so there is nothing to connect to. The status board only shows whether the metro is inside its operating hours right now, in Kyiv time. It cannot see a delay, a halt during an air-raid alert or a station closure, and it does not pretend to.
The operator does not publish train intervals either. The ones on the site come from press reports (September 2026) and are labelled as such.
Where each fact comes from
Hours, free travel and accessibility: the Kharkiv Metro’s own passenger services page, checked on October 11, 2026.
Stations, lines, opening dates and former names: the operator and the Ukrainian-language Wikipedia.
The line diagram: drawn by us from the site’s station list; it is a diagram, not a map to scale.
What is near each station: our own writing, checked against the map; walking times are estimates.
Photographs: from Wikimedia Commons, with attribution where the licence requires it.
When we get it wrong
We fix it and we say what was fixed — this page is the example. Where this site and the metro disagree, the metro is right. If you spot something that does not add up, write to [email protected].
Who is behind this site
This site is run by the team at GoRandom, a small group based in the Basque Country in Spain who do two things that go together better than they sound: travel, and build websites.
Kharkiv is not one of the cities we have been to, and in the current circumstances we will not pretend to know it from the inside. What you read here comes not from our memories but from what the Kharkiv Metro operator publishes, and from checking work we can show you.
The other half of what we know how to do is web development, and this site is the excuse to put the two together. We do not leave it sitting there: every fare and every timetable carries its source and the date we checked it, and they get revised when the operator changes something. The last thorough revision was on October 11, 2026, when the hours, the free-travel rules, station accessibility and every interchange were checked against the operator’s own passenger page.
He decides what goes up, checks the data before it does, and answers the email. If you find a fare that has expired or a timetable that no longer holds, there is a specific person to write to.