OREANDA-NEWS. April 23, 2012. Ukrzaliznytsia is to begin working on a technical plan of Donetsk overland metro, Minister of Infrastructure Borys Kolesnikov told President Viktor Yanukovych at their meeting.

“We have created at the Ministry the Department of Overland Metro, and now, Ukrzaliznytsia is to begin working in a technical plan of Donetsk overland metro,” Borys Kolesnikov said after the meeting with the President. He added that there are also plans to develop metro lines in Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv in the same way.

According to the Minister, the construction of metro in Donetsk is to begin no later than in March 2013. “Our goal is to open the first metro line in Donetsk no later than in December 2014,” he said.