It is located under the Poltavsky Shlyakh, in the middle of the Kholodna Hora residential district in the western part of Kharkiv.

Until 8 October 1995, the station and the street on which it is located were known as Vulytsia Sverdlova (lit.

Also, a bas-relief portrait of communist leader Yakov Sverdlov was located on the station, later removed.

Two relief composite architectural items, which depicted communist scenes from the Velikiy Oktiabr and the Triumph of the Revolution, are still located on the station.

[citation needed][dubious – discuss] The station is put low underground, and is a pillar-trispan with many white marble columns.