Palats "Ukrayina" (Kyiv Metro)

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Palats "Ukrayina"
KyivMetroLogo.png Kyiv Metro station
Дворец Украина (станция метро) 1.jpg
The Station Hall in 2010
LocationPecherskyi District
Kyiv
Ukraine
Coordinates50°25′15″N 30°31′15″E / 50.42083°N 30.52083°E / 50.42083; 30.52083Coordinates: 50°25′15″N 30°31′15″E / 50.42083°N 30.52083°E / 50.42083; 30.52083
Owned byKyiv Metro
Line(s)Obolonsko–Teremkivska line Obolonsko–Teremkivska line
Platforms2
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeunderground
Platform levels1
Other information
Station code220
History
Opened30 December 1984
ElectrifiedYes
Previous namesChervonoarmiyska
Services
Preceding station   Kyiv Metro   Following station
Obolonsko–Teremkivska Line
toward Teremky

Palats "Ukrayina" (Ukrainian: Палац Україна, (About this soundlisten)) 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 Chervonoarmiyska (Ukrainian: Червоноармійська, "Red Army") after the former name of the above it. All Soviet decorations in the station (thus including the ones pictured below) were removed due to 2015 decommunization laws.[1][2]

  • Station wall decor.

  • Station wall decor.

  • Station wall decor.

References[]

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

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