[1] With help from the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Shcherbitsky, in 1979 the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union affirmed the Central Committee of the Communist Party's plan of action to allow the Gosplan (government planning agency) and the communication and transportation construction ministries to conduct research on the construction of a metropolitan system in Dnipropetrovsk.

[11] A third was planned to connect through "the center quarters of the southwestern part with the north on the left bank of the Dnieper.

[12] On March 15, 1982, following a decree by the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union[13] the Dnipro Metro was included in the list of first-priority construction projects.

[10] Soon after the death of Leonid Brezhnev on 10 November 1982 the country ended up in economic hardship and financing of the project was reduced.

Owing to the economic recession of the early 1990s, the metro stations lack the same level of decoration and architectural integrity as those built in Soviet times.

[14] A lack of funding for the construction also was because Dnipropetrovsk was not chosen as one of the host cities of the UEFA Euro 2012 football championship.

In June 2014, President Petro Poroshenko signed the 2014 budget into law which will allocate funding to the "Dnipropetrovskyi Metropoliten" company for the completion of the metro line.

[5] Construction did not start because the tender to select the contractor was stopped by the city council in August 2015.

[18] This date became untenable following the February 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, due to the ongoing war all work has been stopped and the provisionally secured construction is facing flooding and falling into disrepair.