Palats "Ukrayina" (Kyiv Metro)

Palats "Ukrayina" (Ukrainian: Палац Україна) is a station on Kyiv Metro's Obolonsko–Teremkivska Line. The station was opened on 30 December 1984, and is named after Ukraine 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.

Palats "Ukrayina"
Kyiv Metro station
The Station Hall in 2010
Location	Pecherskyi District Kyiv Ukraine
Coordinates	50°25′15″N 30°31′15″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	220
History
Opened	30 December 1984
Electrified	Yes
Previous names	Chervonoarmiyska
Services
Preceding station   Kyiv Metro   Following station Olimpiiska toward Heroiv Dnipra Obolonsko–Teremkivska Line Lybidska toward Teremky

Before 1991, the station was known as Chervonoarmiyska (Ukrainian: Червоноармійська, "Red Army") after the former name of the Velyka Vasylkivska street above it. All Soviet decorations in the station (thus including the ones pictured below) were removed due to 2015 decommunization laws.[1][2]

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  Station wall decor.
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  Station wall decor.
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  Station wall decor.

References

1. (in Ukrainian) Soviet symbols were covered at the Palace Ukraine station, DreamKyiv (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)

External links

• Kyivsky Metropoliten — Station description and photographs (in Ukrainian)
• Metropoliten.kiev.ua — Station description and photographs (in Russian)