| Yaroslava Mudroho | |
| Type: | Kharkiv Metro Station |
| Style: | Kharkiv Metro |
| Style2: | Saltivska |
| Coordinates: | 50.0039°N 36.2475°W |
| Structure: | underground |
| Platform: | 1 |
| Levels: | 1 |
| Tracks: | 2 |
| Opened: | 10 August 1984 |
| Electrified: | Yes |
| Owned: | Kharkiv Metro |
Yaroslava Mudroho (Ukrainian: Ярослава Мудрого|Yaroslava Mudroho|[[Yaroslav the Wise]]) is a station on the Kharkiv Metro's Saltivska Line. Construction on the station began on 16 April 1977, and it opened on 10 August 1984 as Pushkinska, making it the eighth station of the Saltivska Line. It is located in Kharkiv's city center, beneath Yaroslava Mudroho Square at the intersection of the Yaroslava Mudroho and Hryhorii Skovoroda streets.
On 29 April 2024 the station that had been named after Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (since 1984) was renamed to its current name.[1]
The metro station lies more than 30m (100feet) underground which makes it the deepest station of the Kharkiv Metro system.[2]
The station was opened on 10 August 1984 as "Pushkinska" under a street named after Russian poet Alexander Pushkin since 1899 (present-day Hryhoriia Skorovody street).
On 12 January 2024 a bas-relief of Alexander Pushkin was removed from the metro station and other artwork in the station that had incorporated poetry by Aleksandr Pushkin was also removed.[3] As part of a derussification effort the previous year in Kharkiv a monument to Pushkin was dismantled, Pushkin’s name was removed from the name of the, and all the murals with portraits of the poet were erased.[4]
On 26 January 2024 the Kharkiv City Council renamed the Pushkinska street after which the metro station was named to Hryhorii Skovoroda street.[5] The street was renamed in response to a 23 January 2024 Russian bombing of Kharkiv that cased 9 victims, including a 4-year-old child.[6] In the this attack the Pushkinska Street had been hit.[7] According to Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov until the attack he "was in no hurry" to rename this street because "Like many Kharkiv residents, I always felt that Pushkin is not about modern Russia, not about the reality that the Putin regime is trying to instill by using the greatness of historical figures for his own benefit."[8]
On 30 January 2024 Terekhov stated that in all toponyms in the city associated with Russia will be renamed within three to four months, including the metro station.[9]
On 29 April 2024 Terekhov signed the order to rename the station Yaroslava Mudroho Station[1] commemorating the 11th century Grand Prince of Kyiv Yaroslav the Wise (Yaroslav Mudryi) whose name is also borne by the nearby Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. On the same day, but before the station was officially renamed, the name Pushkinska was already removed from the station.[10]