Ploshcha Ukrainskykh Heroiv (Kyiv Metro)
Ploshcha Ukrainskykh Heroiv (Ukrainian: Площа Українських Героїв, lit. 'Square of Ukrainian Heroes') is a station on Kyiv Metro's Obolonsko–Teremkivska Line. Until May 2023 it was named Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho (Ukrainian: Площа Льва Толстого, ). The station was opened on 19 December 1981, and was named after the writer Leo Tolstoy.[1] Tolstoy had visited the city only once.[1] The station was designed by N.A. Levchuk and V.B. Zhezheryn.
Ploshcha Ukrainskykh Heroiv  | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyiv Metro station | ||||||||||||||||
 The Station Hall | ||||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | Shevchenkivskyi District Kyiv Ukraine | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°26′22″N 30°31′00″E / 50.43944°N 30.51667°E | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Kyiv Metro | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) |  Obolonsko–Teremkivska line | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||||
| Structure type | underground | |||||||||||||||
| Platform levels | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Other information | ||||||||||||||||
| Station code | 218 | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 19 December 1981 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Services | ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
The station is located deep underground and consists of a central hall with arcades in the walls. The central hall has been covered with orange-coloured marble and is lit by chandeliers and decorative lamps placed on the walls. Passenger tunnels connect the station to the Square of Ukrainian Heroes and another street.
The station forms a station complex with a transfer tunnel with the adjoining Palats Sportu station on the Syretsko–Pecherska line.
In a May 2022 online poll (with 170,000 respondents) taken during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine voters chose to rename the station to Vasylia Stusa (named after Vasyl Stus)[2] Another choice was Liny Kostenko (named after Lina Kostenko)[3][2] On Friday 13 January 2023 the Kyiv City Council announced the metro station would be renamed.[4] In a poll organised by them Kyiv residents cast more than 100,000 votes for the renaming of seven city objects, including this and another metro stations.[4] The majority of the votes went to the name Ukrainian Heroes Square.[4] On 18 May 2023 the Kyiv City Council renamed the station to this name.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b (in Russian) In Kyiv, metro station "Petrivka" and Tolstoy Street will "disappear": all the details, Segodnya (19 April 2017)
- ^ a b "Kyiv selects new names for Soviet-linked metro stations". BBC. 2022-05-10. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ^ Valentyna Romanenko (2022-05-02). ""Борщ", "Реактивные гуси", "Имени Магистра Йоды": как киевляне предлагали переименовать станции метро" (in Russian). Ukrainska Pravda. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ^ a b c Станції столичного метро "Дружби народів" та "Площа Льва Толстого" отримають нові назви [The capital's metro stations "Druzhby Narodiv" and "Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho" will receive new names]. Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 2022-01-13. Retrieved 2023-01-13.
- ^ У Києві перейменували станції метро та низку вулиць [Metro stations and a number of streets were renamed in Kyiv] (in Ukrainian). Istorychna Pravda. 2023-05-19. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
External links
edit
- Kyivsky Metropoliten — Station description and photographs (in Ukrainian)
- Metropoliten.kiev.ua — Station description and photographs (in Russian)
 | This Kyiv Metro article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article about a Ukrainian railway station is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |