Ploshcha Ukrainskykh Heroiv
Kyiv Metro
Kyiv Metro station
The Station Hall
General information
LocationShevchenkivskyi District
Kyiv
Ukraine
Coordinates50°26′22″N 30°31′00″E / 50.43944°N 30.51667°E / 50.43944; 30.51667
Owned byKyiv Metro
Line(s) Obolonsko–Teremkivska line
Platforms2
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeunderground
Platform levels1
Other information
Station code218
History
Opened19 December 1981 (1981-12-19)
ElectrifiedYes
Services
Preceding station Kyiv Metro Following station
Maidan Nezalezhnosti
towards Heroiv Dnipra
 Obolonsko–Teremkivska line Olimpiiska
towards Teremky
Zoloti Vorota
towards Syrets
 Syretsko–Pecherska line
transfer at Palats Sportu
 Klovska
towards Chervonyi Khutir

Ploshcha Ukrainskykh Heroiv (Ukrainian: Площа Українських Героїв, lit. 'Ukrainian Heroes Square') 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 (who visited Kyiv only once[1]). It was designed by N.A. Levchuk and V.B. Zhezheryn.

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.

Voters chose to rename the station to Vasylia Stusa (named after Vasyl Stus)[2] - another choice was Liny Kostenko (named after Lina Kostenko)[3] - in a May 2022 online poll (with 170,000 respondents) taken during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[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

  1. ↑ (in Russian) In Kyiv, metro station "Petrivka" and Tolstoy Street will "disappear": all the details, Segodnya (19 April 2017)
  2. 1 2 "Kyiv selects new names for Soviet-linked metro stations". BBC. 2022-05-10. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  3. ↑ Valentyna Romanenko (2022-05-02). ""Борщ", "Реактивные гуси", "Имени Магистра Йоды": как киевляне предлагали переименовать станции метро" (in Russian). Ukrayinska Pravda. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  4. 1 2 3 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.
  5. ↑ У Києві перейменували станції метро та низку вулиць [Metro stations and a number of streets were renamed in Kyiv] (in Ukrainian). Historival Pravda. 2023-05-19. Retrieved 2023-05-19.


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