Palats Ukraina (Kyiv Metro) Explained

Palats Ukraina
Style:Kyiv Metro
Style2:Obolonsko–Teremkivska
Symbol:m
Symbol Location:Kyiv
Type:Kyiv Metro station
Address:Pecherskyi District
Borough:Kyiv
Country:Ukraine
Coordinates:50.4208°N 30.5208°W
Structure:underground
Platform:2
Levels:1
Tracks:2
Opened:30 December 1984
Electrified:Yes
Code:220
Owned:Kyiv Metro
Former:Chervonoarmiyska

Palats Ukraina (Ukrainian: Палац «Україна», pronounced as /audio link/) is a station on Kyiv Metro's Obolonsko–Teremkivska Line. The station was opened on 30 December 1984, and is named after Ukraine's biggest concert hall located near it. The architecture was designed by A.S. Krushynskyi, T.A. Tselikovska, N. Alyoskin, with other design by S. Kirichenko and R. Kirichenko.

Before 1991, the station was known as Chervonoarmiiska (Ukrainian: Червоноармійська, "Red Army") after the former name of the Velyka Vasylkivska street above it. All Soviet decorations in the station (thus including the ones pictured below) were removed due to 2015 decommunization laws.[1] [2]

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Notes and References

  1. Soviet symbols were covered at the Palace Ukraine station, DreamKyiv (17 July 2015)
  2. From the dismantled in the Kyiv subway communist symbols will be created a museum, Zerkalo Nedeli (8 May 2016)