Kiyevskaya (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line)

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 Treaty of Pereyaslav, which was viewed by 20th-century Soviet historiography as an act of 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 Киевская
Moscow Metro station
General information
Location	Dorogomilovo District Western Administrative Okrug Moscow Russia
Coordinates	55.7442°N 37.5645°E / 55.7442; 37.5645
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	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; 72 years ago (1953-04-05)[1]
Services
Preceding station Moscow Metro Following station Park Pobedy towards Pyatnitskoye Shosse Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line Smolenskaya towards Shchyolkovskaya Vystavochnaya towards Mezhdunarodnaya Filyovskaya line transfer at Kiyevskaya Smolenskaya towards Aleksandrovsky Sad Studencheskaya towards Kuntsevskaya Park Kultury anticlockwise / outer Koltsevaya line transfer at Kiyevskaya Krasnopresnenskaya clockwise / inner
Route map Legend Rozhdestveno Mitino yard Pyatnitskoye Shosse Mitino Volokolamskaya Mitinsky Bridge over Moskva River Myakinino MKAD Strogino () Troitse-Lykovo Krylatskoye Molodyozhnaya Kuntsevskaya Slavyansky Bulvar Park Pobedy Kiyevskaya Moskva River Smolenskaya () Arbatskaya to Aleksandrovsky Sad Ploshchad Revolyutsii () Kurskaya Baumanskaya Elektrozavodskaya Semyonovskaya Partizanskaya Pervomayskaya (closed) Izmaylovo yard Izmaylovskaya Pervomayskaya Shchyolkovskaya Golyanovo This diagram: view talk edit
Location Kiyevskaya Location within Central Moscow

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; the 2003 extension to Park Pobedy ended that situation.

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