Kiyevskaya (Moscow Metro)

Kiyevskaya Moscow Metro station
Koltsevaya Line hall
Station statistics
Address	Dorogomilovo District Western Administrative Okrug Moscow Russia
Coordinates	55°44′35.35″N 37°33′51.54″E
Lines	Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line Filyovskaya Line Koltsevaya Line
Levels	3
Platforms	3 island platforms
Tracks	6
Other information
Opened	5 April 1953 20 March 1937 14 March 1954
Code	042 057 077
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Park Pobedy toward Mitino Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line Smolenskaya toward Shchyolkovskaya Studencheskaya toward Kuntsevskaya Filyovskaya Line Smolenskaya toward Aleksandrovsky Sad Vystavochnaya toward Mezhdunarodnaya Filyovskaya Line MIBC branch Park Kultury One-way operation Koltsevaya Line Krasnopresnenskaya One-way operation

Kiyevskaya is a Moscow Metro station complex in the Dorogomilovo District, Western Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia. It consists of three halls on Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya, Filyovskaya and Koltsevaya lines.

Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line hall

Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line part 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 reunification of Russia and Ukraine. Light comes from a row of hexagonal chandeliers. The architects were L. Lile, V. Litvinov, M. Markovsky, and V. Dobrokovsky.

This part of the station has no entrance. Instead, it is connected to Koltsevaya Line hall and thence to that station's entrance, which is built into the Kiyevsky Rail Terminal.

For half a century Kiyevskaya was the terminus of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line until the 2003 extension to Park Pobedy.

Filyovskaya Line hall

Filyovskaya Line hall initially opened in 1937 and closed in 1953 when the new Kiyevskaya station, intended to replace it, was completed. Due to a change of plans, however, it reopened after only five years as part of the new Filyovskaya Line. The original architect was Dmitry Chechulin.

It features tall, octagonal pillars topped with elaborate capitals. The pillars were originally faced with Armenian onyx, but this was replaced with yellowish Gazgan marble after ten years. The platform is intricately patterned with Ukrainian designs executed in red, white, and gray granite. The three rows of circular ceiling coffers originally housed incandescent light fixtures but these were abandoned in favor of the current three-bladed fluorescent lamps in the 1960s.

Between Kiyevskaya and Smolenskaya is the Smolensky Metro Bridge, which spans the Moskva River. The bridge was built in 1937 and was the first above-ground section of the Metro.

Koltsevaya Line hall

This part is on the Koltsevaya Line, between Park Kultury and Krasnopresnenskaya stations. It is named after the nearby Kiyevsky Rail Terminal. The design for the station was chosen in an open competition held in Ukraine; the entry submitted by the team of E. Katonin, V. Skugarev, and G. Golubev placed first in among 73 others it and became the final design. Kievskaya features low, square pylons faced with white marble and surmounted by large mosaics by A.V. Myzin celebrating Russo-Ukrainian unity. Both the mosaics and the arches between the pylons are edged with elaborate gold-colored trim. At the end of the platform is a portrait of Lenin.

The entrance to the station, which is shared with both of the other two Kievskaya stations, is built into the Kiev railway station. With the completion of the segment of track between Belorusskaya and Park Kultury in 1954 the Koltsevaya Line became fully operational with trains running continuously around the loop for the first time.