Kyiv line. Socialist realism in the metro: "Kyiv" ring and "Park Kultury"

The Kyiv railway station, the Kyiv metro station, and numerous shopping centers along the perimeter of the station square did not appear immediately. At the end of the 19th century, a station building was built, which was called the Bryansk Station. In 1912, in honor of the centenary of the Battle of Borodino, the Russian government decided to build a large railway junction to send trains south. Bryansky Station was rebuilt for this project and became four times larger. Construction took exactly five years and ended in 1918.

Renaming

At the same time, the Borodino Bridge was built, which is still a landmark in Moscow today. The first train left the platform on February 18, 1918. The Bryansk station operated until 1934, after which it was renamed Kyiv, since most of the trains left in the direction of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and the city of Bryansk had nothing to do with this.

This is how one of the largest Moscow railway junctions appeared - Kyiv Station. The metro station was still just a project at that time and was part of the general scheme for the reconstruction of Moscow. In accordance with this plan, it was planned to expand the station square to Dorogomilovskaya Street and connect it with the ensemble of the Borodinsky Bridge and the Moskva River. The center of the landscape was to be the Kyiv railway station, the metro station and the space leading to the embankment.

Structure

Sixteen platforms, underground passages connecting passenger terminals, a huge landing stage ending in waiting rooms, an arched ceiling 320 meters long, 48 meters wide and 28 meters high - this is the modern Kyiv railway station. The Kievskaya metro station has access to the central facade of the station, and the entrance to the metro is located near the central ticket hall. Another entrance to the subway is located a little further from the station building, towards the Radisson Hotel.

Three underground lines - "Koltsevaya", "Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya" and "Filevskaya" - are united by the Kyiv Station metro station. Moscow is constantly being updated; new transport resources are required that could cope with increasing passenger flows, and Kievskaya is one of the most modern and powerful stations on the capital’s metro map.

Redevelopment

In 2004, the grandiose arched ceiling, from under which dozens of trains leave every day, was modernized. The 27 riveted steel arches were dismantled and lighter welded ones were installed in their place. At the same time, four arches of the famous architect Shukhov were preserved. They support the vaults at the junction with the outer wall of the waiting room. As a result, the transition to the metro ticket office was closed, and thus the central underground metro station "Kyiv Station" was formed. Moscow (or rather, its residents) has long been accustomed to such innovations, so the extra hundred meters of the roundabout route did not seem inconvenient to anyone.

The Moscow metro is a very flexible system, prone to constant changes, improvements and innovative transformations. The most progressive station among others is Kievsky Station. Which metro station was the first in Moscow to install Entrance-Exit turnstiles? It was "Kyiv". At first, passengers rushing to board the train were confused about two tickets: for travel and for passage through the turnstile. But soon travel tickets with barcodes appeared, and the situation returned to normal.

Quality of service

Which Moscow station regularly wins competitions for the title of the best in providing service? This is also the Kyiv railway station. The metro station (the route map below will help you determine its location) is maintained in exemplary order. Everything here is focused on providing comfort for passengers.

The only inconvenience in the complex of station services is the long and slow transition from the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line to the Filevskaya line. But compared to passenger service in other directions, which is at a high level, minor inconveniences do not seem significant.

Accompanying services

One of the achievements of the station complex is Aeroexpress, whose comfortable buses deliver passengers from the Kievsky station directly to Vnukovo airport. The route is non-stop, quite fast, the interval between flights is half an hour. Near the Kievsky railway station there is a large parking lot for passenger vehicles. An hour in a well-guarded parking lot costs 50 rubles. There is also a car wash and a technical center where you can carry out diagnostics and maintenance, including changing the engine oil. Parking rules allow you to leave the car for a long time if the owner will be absent for several days.

Located on Kievsky Station Square, no. 1.

Nearest metro stations:
Kyiv metro station is an interchange hub ✱

1. Kyiv (Filyovskaya line No. 4)
2. Kyiv (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line No. 3)
3. Kyiv (Circle Line No. 5).

The Circle Metro Line connects all lines of the Moscow Metro, as well as seven of the nine railway stations in Moscow (except Rizhsky and Savelovsky), serving as a kind of interchange circuit. Therefore, the best way to get to Kievsky Station is metro.

How to get to the station from Kievskaya-ring (brown)

At the Kyiv-Koltsevaya station, in the center of the hall there is a transition to the Filyovskaya line (blue color). You need to take a long escalator to the surface. Next you will find yourself in a hall with turnstiles, keep left and go through the far turnstiles (next to the glass doors). After the turnstiles, go straight to the end and turn right. As you rise from the underground passage, you will find the Kievsky railway station building on your left.

How to get to the station from the Kyiv-radial station (blue)

At the Kyiv station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya (radial) blue line, opposite the stop of the first car of the train from Smolenskaya, find the exit to the city and the transition to the Filyovskaya line.
Get to the escalators: to the left - escalators to the Circle Line, to the right - 4 escalators leading to the exit to the city. Going upstairs, you will see the Evropeisky shopping center, and behind you will be the Kyiv railway station.

How to get to the station from Kyiv station on the Filevskaya line (blue)

At the Kyiv station of the Filyovskaya line, opposite the stop of the first car of the train heading towards Smolenskaya (from Studencheskaya), there is an exit to the city. You need to go up the steps from the station, after the turnstiles go straight to the end and turn right. As you rise from the underground passage, you will find the Kievsky railway station building on your left.

Kyiv railway station on the map

How to get to Kievsky Station by ground transport

Buses:
№ 91 — 4th Setunsky passage → Matveevskoe
№ 119 — Nagorny Boulevard → Kyiv Station (Kyiv St.)
№ 205
№ 320 — 2nd Mosfilmovsky lane. → Kyiv railway station (Kyiv street)
№ 394 — Ramensky Boulevard → Kyiv Station (Kyiv St.)
№ 474 — Matveevskoe → Kyiv railway station (Kyiv street)
№ 477 — Post Office → Kyiv Station (Kyiv St.)
№ 791 — 4th Setunsky passage → Kyiv railway station (Kyiv street)
№ 902 — Fedosino → Kyiv Station (Kyiv St.)

Trolleybuses:
№ T7
№ 17 — Ozernaya → Kyiv Station (Kyiv St.)
№ 34 — Metro Yugo-Zapadnaya → Kyiv Station (Kyiv St.)
№ 34k— Kravchenko (Kravchenko St.) → Kyiv Station (Kyiv St.)

Minibuses:
№ 454

Stop "Kyiv Station" (Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya St.)

Buses:
№ T39— Fili → Metro Mayakovskaya
№ 157 — Belovezhskaya → Kyiv Station (Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya St.)
№ 205 — Dovzhenko → Shopping center (Elitstroymaterialy)
№ 840 — 66th block of Kuntseva → 2nd Bryansky lane.

Trolleybuses:
№ T7— Metro Park Pobedy → Cinema Udarnik

Route Taxi:
№ 454 — Kyiv railway station (Kyiv street) → Odintsovo Park residential complex

Kyiv railway station - Vnukovo how to get there

• " " runs between Vnukovo and Kievsky railway station.
  The duration of the trip to "" is 35 minutes.
  The entrance to the Aeroexpress terminal is located in the building (Kyiv metro station, radial or ring, opposite the Evropeisky shopping center).
  The electric train arrives at Vnukovo Airport at the underground railway station located opposite Terminal A. In Terminal A of Vnukovo Airport, to enter the Aeroexpress station, you need to take the elevator or escalator to the “-1” floor, pass the Aviation Security Service employees and follow the signs go to the Aeroexpress station.
• You can also take the Circle Line to the Park Kultury station and change to the Sokolnicheskaya Line. Get into the first carriage, drive through 9 stations and get off at Salaryevo. Then take bus 911 to Vnukovo Airport.

Kyiv station - Domodedovo how to get there

"" to Domodedovo Airport departs from Paveletsky railway station.
In order to get to the airport from the Kievsky railway station, you need to take the middle or end of the train from the Kyiv Koltsevaya metro station, travel 4 stations and get off at Paveletskaya.
The Aeroexpress railway terminal is located in the Paveletsky railway station building. Entrance to the Aeroexpress terminal is through the 2nd entrance of the Paveletsky station, or through the lobby when exiting the station. Paveletskaya-radial metro station. Follow the signs.
Aeroexpress follows the route Paveletsky Station (Paveletskaya metro station) - Domodedovo Airport without intermediate stops.

The railway platform from which Aeroexpress trains depart from Moscow to Paveletsky Station is located opposite exit No. 3 of the Domodedovo airport complex. From the international arrivals area, follow the signs inside the airport.

Kyiv railway station - Sheremetyevo how to get there

"" to Sheremetyevo departs from the Belorussky railway station.

In order to get from the Kievsky railway station to Sheremetyevo, you need to take the middle or end of the train from the Kyiv Koltsevaya metro station, go through 2 stations and get off at Belorusskaya.
Entrance to the Aeroexpress terminal is through the 2nd and 4th entrances of the Belorussky railway station (Belorusskaya metro station).

Sheremetyevo passenger air terminals E, D, F are connected to each other and to the Aeroexpress terminal by pedestrian galleries. Follow the signs.
Public transport runs from Terminal C to Aeroexpress Terminal.

Video

I have already written more than once that the metro is a monument of an era, reflecting those ideas that in a particular historical era were considered necessary to convey to the people. Therefore, today it is interesting to walk through the Kievskaya station, overcoming the crush, look at its 18 mosaic panels and try to understand what they tried to present to us with Ukrainian history and modernity in March 1954, when the station opened.
The times were difficult. Stalin died a year ago, but the cult of personality had not yet been debunked, and the image of the leader was present on the mosaics in the amount of six. Then they were all replaced, most likely, one mosaic was replaced entirely, because there is no panel on the theme “The 19th Congress - the Congress of the Unity of the Communist Party, the Soviet Government and the People” on Kievskaya today.
Khrushchev, who replaced Stalin, came from Ukraine and apparently had a hand in ensuring that the perpetuation of Ukrainians in the Moscow metro was at the proper level. Indeed, Kyiv-Koltsevaya is one of the most richly and variedly decorated in the Moscow metro.
In order not to impose my opinion, I will first simply show all 18 panels with official names, and then add something of my own.
In the top photo is Pereyaslavskaya Rada. 8/18 January 1654

2. Battle of Poltava

3.Pushkin in Ukraine

4. Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, Nekrasov and Shevchenko in St. Petersburg

7.Proclamation of Soviet power by V.I. Lenin in Smolny. October 1917

8.The struggle for Soviet power in Ukraine

9.M. I. Kalinin and G. K. Ordzhonikidze at the opening of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station

10. Tractor brigade of the first MTS

11.Folk festival in Kyiv

12. Reunification of the entire Ukrainian people in a single Ukrainian Soviet state

13. Liberation of Kyiv by the Soviet Army. 1943

14.Victory salute in Moscow. May 9, 1945

15. Socialist competition of metallurgists of the Urals and Donbass

16. Friendship between Russian and Ukrainian collective farmers

17. Order-bearing Ukraine, the republic of workers and peasants, is blooming

Well, let's talk now?
The first thing that surprised me: Ukrainian history begins with Bogdan Khmelnytsky and the union with Russia. Kievan Rus is on the side. The founding of the state, the construction of Kyiv, everything we studied in history in school - we don’t need it.
The history of pre-revolutionary Ukraine (three and a half centuries) - exactly 4 panels out of 18, on the revolution and Soviet Ukraine - 14.
The only Ukrainian named by name is Taras Shevchenko. Even Bogdan Khmelnitsky, obviously depicted in the first panel, is not named (however, like Peter the Great - probably because he is a king). But Pushkin, Nekrasov, Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, Lenin, Kalinin and Ordzhonikidze are named. What is it for?
By theme, mosaics are divided approximately as follows. 5 - events that took place on the territory of Ukraine: Pereyaslav Rada, the Battle of Poltava, the launch of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station, the reunification of Ukraine in 1939 (it’s very interesting there: residents of the Ukrainian USSR in national costumes are walking towards the “Western Ukrainians” in jackets, though over embroidered shirts; such interesting nuances on there are many stations), liberation of Kyiv. 2 panels reflect events of significance for the country as a whole - the October Revolution and the victory salute. One thing - it’s not at all clear where it is, this is Lenin’s Iskra. Friendship of the Russian and Ukrainian people in different forms - (from Pushkin in Ukraine to the demonstration on Red Square) 7 pieces. The rest is some not very specific events from the history of Ukraine, such as the struggle for Soviet power, or scenes from the life of Soviet Ukraine.
I see here a very clear ideological subtext and a specific reflection of Ukrainian history - from the position of the “big brother”, or something. But maybe just me? What do you think?

The large interchange hubs of the Moscow metro, with their endless confusing passages that so frighten visitors, have always inspired me with awe. Ever since childhood. It seemed to me that there were an infinite number of passages there, and it was completely impossible to remember where this or that underground passage led. Stairs and turns, up, right, down, straight and left... Like a lost city or a cunning fortress. But time passed, the Internet appeared and schemes for intricate transfers became available, it turned out that the number of moves was quite limited and there seemed to be no secret here. But still, when approaching a large transfer hub, the heart beats a little faster. So, today we will start exploring the Kievskie metro stations. Let's start with the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. The station opened in April 1953. This was the second station with this name in this transfer hub. It’s interesting that the station was the terminus on the “blue” line for exactly 50 years. The beginning of the 50s was a golden time for the Moscow metro; the stations opened during this period added to the collection of the most beautiful ones in our metro.

Let's start with retrospective photos.
Here are unique photos from the wonderful book "Moscow Metro" from 1953. (from here) Abstracting a little from the topic, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that books were published at that time of quite high quality; it was the culture of book printing and the layout of material that was very high. For example, for the 80th anniversary of the metro, an excellent book was published, excellent in content, but now people have forgotten how to design the books, how to present the material. Books are now being typed by people who are far from this. But let's not talk about sad things. So in the photo there are frescoes from the station and part of the underground lobby. The lobby is combined with the Kievskaya Circle Line, which will open exactly in a year. The photo shows that there are cool massive chandeliers, similar to the chandeliers on the metro station. "Paveletskaya" (Circle Line), and there are tiles on the floor.

And here is a photo from the station hall. There is no fresco at the end yet; instead, there is a door to the technical room. Judging by the photo, there is still no staircase leading to the antechamber at the end, which is interesting.

1. So let's begin. Combined lobby of the Circle and Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya lines. There is a passage from the lobby of the Filyovskaya Line, which in turn is built into the Kievsky Station building. The lobby is round in shape, like this, richly decorated with high coffered ceilings. It’s a pity that there are no chandeliers now, instead there are modern rather inappropriate lamps.

2. There is an exit to the city and the Filyovskaya line station in the distance.

3. Heating radiator grilles. Beautiful.

4. The portal of the escalator hall is decorated with mosaics. Very good.

5. Look how beautiful it is. Still, as I already said, the 50s in the Moscow metro were a golden age. Inside the portal there is a hermetic seal; it is decorated with grilles with patterns, the same as on the grilles on radiators.

6. Escalator hall. Of course, everything is very pompous here. The vault is supported by columns of the Ionic order with beautiful capitals and marble trim. There is an ornament along the top, the lighting of the dome is hidden behind the cornice. The hall itself is illuminated by chandeliers placed between the columns.

7. The walls are also decorated with light stone; on top, along the entire semicircle, there is a large-scale mosaic panel. Ukrainians march on it and carry everything they produced to the Soviet coat of arms, which is located right in the middle.

8. View towards the escalator slope.

9. 4 escalators lead down to the antechamber. Further down the escalator you can go down to the Circle Line, and to the right there is a passage to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line.

10. Let's go, like all good passengers, to the right. There's a hermetic seal right there.
11. The passage is decorated with light stone, and there are chic sconces on the walls. Beauty and chic.

12. There are two staircases going down to the station.
13. The openings above the tracks are fenced off. The fence is richly decorated, wooden railings.

14. From above you can look at the station, at the cool chandeliers.

15. View from the station. It is strange that there is no railing at the beginning of the staircase. Previously, we paid attention to such little things.

16. To prevent flows from intersecting, the exit to the city and the transfer to the Filyovskaya line is made in the form of a separate passage; it is located at the end of the station. On the right there are also steps to the staircase, it is not used, the opening is closed.

17. There are also two stairs. It is interesting that on the left there is a sign “No passage”, although these two staircases are intended specifically for crossing and exiting into the city. If you look at photo 10, you can see that in the distance there is just the exit from this transition. The same strange theme with the sign is in photo 15. Quite confusing navigation, it seemed to me. The sign says that here you can change to the Filevskaya Line, but you can immediately go through the antechamber, which in photo 1 goes down to the Koltsevaya Line.

18. What a fence - beauty.

19. Here you can see how the transition cut the stucco a little. Small jambs can be found not only among modern builders. =)
20. Cool sconces on the walls again. What is that opening further to the right?

21. View in the opposite direction.

22. Exit to the antechamber, and a hermetic gate.

23. The sign only sends us upstairs to the lobby for a transfer to the Filyovskaya line. However, the fence does not block the possibility of going down to the Ring Road.

24. You can also get to the station from the Koltsevaya and via a separate passage. In the background are the stairs to the roundabout.

25. In the other direction. Hermetic seal and... here the design is poorer. The lamps are simply terrible.

26. But there is a nice ventilation grille here. As for me, I really like the old signs like this. The new ones are still unusual and it seems that the font is too small, we have already gotten used to this. And yes, this photo is before the metro station opened after restoration. " ".

27. The station itself is very busy. One of the busiest stations of the Moscow metro, it confidently ranks among the top ten in terms of passenger traffic. It is also among the top ten in terms of design beauty. I definitely recommend visiting to admire the decor, although it will be difficult due to the dense crowd of people. But for those who stood in line for Serov, I think this is not so scary! It is absolutely not necessary to go to a museum; in Moscow, some metro stations are as good as any museum.

28. The pylons are decorated with marble underneath, but the frieze is decorated with painted ceramic panels. Moreover, they have a rather complex shape and consist of a large number of elements.

29. The design features floral patterns and, of course, five-pointed stars.

30. Very cool. Ceramics always looks very elegant and rich. What kind of underground palace would it be without such elements?

31. Recently, the frescoes that decorate the vaults above the pylons were restored, so that the station would not be blocked for passengers or even impede the considerable passenger flow, such scaffolding was built. Both restorers at work and passengers walk around below.

32. But the chandeliers at the station are the same as at the metro station. " ", however, it looks like there are completely original lampshades here. The upper and lower parts are different pieces of glass.

33. The frescoes depict the working life of Soviet Ukraine. Here are the railway workers. They say goodbye or greet each other incomprehensibly. In any case, the IS-20 steam locomotive is still present in the picture. IS is Joseph Stalin. In 1962, after the cult of his personality was debunked, even the locomotives were renamed. But since these frescoes were painted earlier, then there is “IS”!

34. Here are the athletes with the pioneer.

35. Cotton growers. Interesting. I don’t remember at all that Ukraine was famous for cotton. It turned out that in the 50s, work was actually carried out on growing cotton crops, but then the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bgrowing cotton in Ukraine was abandoned. Cotton began to be grown in the Central Asian republics. There was only one country; one could afford such a narrow specialization in growing crops. A cotton harvester is visible in the background. The letters SХМ are visible. Most likely this is SKHM-48. It’s funny, but in addition to the workers on the frescoes, there is also modern (for those years) technology - this should show the technical equipment of Soviet workers.

36. This is what the fresco looked like before restoration.

37. The fresco is called “In kindergarten”. Classic Madonna and Child motif. The children of Soviet Ukraine, despite the post-war years, look quite happy. The girl even has a bicycle.

38. Livestock breeders.

39. A few details. Vent grille.

40. The benches are also not original. They are exactly the same ones at the metro station. " " Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line.

41.

Now let's move on to the main decoration of the station. This is a wonderful fresco "People's festivities in Kyiv". This fresco, like the entire design of the station, is dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine and Russia. This is how it looked recently (it was restored several times) until 2010.

But in October 2010, the fresco completely crumbled. The point is that the waterproofing was broken, water penetrated the plaster along this steel wall, it became brittle and at some point the inevitable happened. (This and the following photo were taken from russos )

You can assess the scale of the tragedy from this photo. Catastrophe. It seemed that we had lost the fresco forever. But thank God, the decision was made not just to cover up the wall, plaster it and paint another image, they decided to restore the fresco.

42. And now, after 3 years of restoration by specialists from the Kitezh restoration workshop, the fresco returned to its place. It’s very interesting to read about the restoration process, don’t be lazy, follow the link () about restoration. On the fresco in the middle, under the banners, the comrade turned into a Cossack, although until 2010 he was restored to some kind of Asian. Grandfather appeared behind the dancing girl. Restorers say that they tried to restore the original version.

43. Let's take another look at the central hall of the station.

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Transfer to metro station Kyiv (Circle Line)
Transfer to metro station Kyiv (Filyovskaya line)

Metro "Kyiv" of the Circle Line of the Moscow Metro is located between the stations "Park Kultury" and "Krasnopresnenskaya". This is the only station on the Circle Line located outside the Central Administrative District of Moscow.

Station history

The Kievskaya Koltsevaya metro station was the favorite station of Nikita Khrushchev, who in 1953 was elected to the post of First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and finally had the opportunity to build a station related to his native Ukraine. He announced a competition in which 40 projects from Moscow and Kyiv architects took part. As expected, the victory went to the Kyiv metro builders. The construction was headed by E. Katonin, a member of the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR.

History of the name

The station is named after the nearby Kievsky railway station.

Description of the station

The design of the station is dedicated to the themes “Friendship of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples” and “History of Ukraine”. The 18 panels decorating the station tell the story of relations between Russia and Ukraine, starting with the Pereyaslav Rada, when the Cossacks decided to reunite with Russia, and until the revolution of 1917.

The end wall of the central hall is occupied by a panel on which, surrounded by stucco flags, a mosaic portrait of Lenin and lines of the USSR anthem are laid out.

Specifications

Metro "Kyiv" is a three-vaulted deep pylon station located at a depth of 53 meters. The authors of the standard project are G. E. Golubev, E. I. Katonin and V. K. Skugarev. The artistic design of the station was carried out by artists G. I. Opryshko, A. V. Mizin and A. G. Ivanov.

Lobbies and transfers

The station has a transition to the stations of the same name on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya and Filevskaya lines. The transition to the Filyovskaya line is located in the station hall. The Kyiv metro station has a common lobby with the station of the same name on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. The lobby is located in the building of the Kievsky railway station and has access to both the station itself and the streets 2nd Bryansky passage and Kyiv.

Useful facts

The exit to the station from the station lobby is open from 7:00 to 22:00, to commuter trains - from 5:30 to 1:00.

Aeroexpress regularly runs on the route Kyiv Station - Vnukovo Airport.