 Geographically Sonyachna is located on a junction of four microraions of the city ("Sonyachnyi" for which the station is named, "Skhidnyi-1,2,3" and "Hirnytskyi").It is the last station on the combined track before the metrotram's route splits to the two branches, this makes it the busiest station on the system.Originally the station was named Zhovtneva (, ) after the nearby market ("Oktyabrsky Rynok").