Kiyevskaya (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line)

Kiyevskaya Киевская
Moscow Metro station
Location	Dorogomilovo District Western Administrative Okrug
Coordinates	55°44′39″N 37°33′52″E / 55.7442°N 37.5645°E / 55.7442; 37.5645Coordinates: 55°44′39″N 37°33′52″E / 55.7442°N 37.5645°E / 55.7442; 37.5645
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	3  Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Pylon station
Depth	38 metres (125 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	042
History
Opened	5 April 1953 (1953-04-05)[1]
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Park Pobedy toward  Pyatnitskoye Shosse Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line Smolenskaya toward  Shchyolkovskaya Studencheskaya toward  Kuntsevskaya Filyovskaya Line Transfer at: Kiyevskaya Smolenskaya toward  Aleksandrovsky Sad Vystavochnaya toward  Kuntsevskaya Filyovskaya Line MIBC branch Transfer at: Kiyevskaya Park Kultury anticlockwise / outer Koltsevaya Line Transfer at: Kiyevskaya Krasnopresnenskaya clockwise / inner
Route map Mitino yard Pyatnitskoye Shosse Mitino Volokolamskaya Mitinsky Bridge  Moskva River Myakinino Strogino Krylatskoye Molodyozhnaya Kuntsevskaya  4  Slavyansky Bulvar Park Pobedy  8A  Kiyevskaya  4   5  Moskva River Smolenskaya Arbatskaya  1   4   9  to Fili yard Ploshchad Revolyutsii  2  ( 1 ) Kurskaya  5   10  Baumanskaya Elektrozavodskaya Semyonovskaya Partizanskaya  14  (OSI) Pervomayskaya (closed) Izmaylovo yard Izmaylovskaya Pervomayskaya Shchyolkovskaya
Location
Kiyevskaya Location within Central Moscow

Kiyevskaya (Russian: Киевская), named for the nearby Kiyevsky railway station, is a station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Opened in 1953, it is lavishly decorated in the quasi-baroque style that predominated in the early 1950s. The square pylons are faced with white Ural marble and elaborately patterned ceramic tile and the plastered ceiling is decorated with a series of frescoes by various artists depicting life in Ukraine. A large mosaic at the end of the platform commemorates the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Russia and Ukraine. Light comes from a row of hexagonal chandeliers. The architects were L. V. Lile, V. A. Litvinov, M. F. Markovsky, and V. M. Dobrokovsky.

Kiyevskaya has no vestibule of its own. Instead, escalators at the end of the hall lead to Kiyevskaya and thence to that station's entrance, which is built into the Kiyevsky railway station.

For half a century Kiyevskaya was the terminus of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line, yet the 2003 extension to Park Pobedy prevented the record from being established further.

Transfers

From this station it is possible to transfer to Kiyevskaya on the Filyovskaya Line and the Kiyevskaya on the Ring.

Image gallery

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  Panel at the end of the hall
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  Mosaic
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  Mosaic
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  Mosaic
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  Platform

References

External links

• metro.ru
• mymetro.ru
• KartaMetro.info — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)