14 Facts About Kyiv Metro

Kyiv Metro is a rapid transit system that is the mainstay of Kyiv's public transport.

Story of a rapid transit system in Kyiv begins in September 1916 when businessmen of the Russo-American trading corporation attempted to collect funds to sponsor construction of a metro in Kyiv, which previously had been a pioneering city for Imperial Russian rapid transit, opening the first Russian tram system.

Kyiv Metro was terribly destroyed during World War II, so a massive reconstruction process was ordered in the third largest city of the USSR.

Second section's construction of the the only line in Kyiv Metro started in 1960 at latest, and finished on 5 November 1963, with the opening of a 3.

Kyiv Metro follows a standard Soviet triangle layout that intersects in the centre where the stations are built very deep underground and could potentially double as bomb shelters.

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Stations on the lines come across all 10 subdivisions of Kyiv their spread is uneven—the most belongs to Shevchenkivskyi district which has 13 stations, Pecherskyi and Holosiivskyi raions both boast 11 stops, Darnytskyi - 7, Obolonskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Dniprovskyi districts feature 4 each, Podilskyi district offers three stations, while Desnyanskyi raion, despite being the most populous district in Kyiv, is deprived of Metro communication—only 2 stations are available.

Information above reveals that the right bank part of Kyiv Metro contains the absolute majority of the stations —only 12 stations are offered in the eastern part of the city, compared to 40 on the opposite side.

Kyiv Metro is managed by the city-owned municipal company Kyivsky Metropoliten which was transferred in the early 1990s from the Ministry of Transportation.

The Kyiv Metro employs several thousand workers in tunnel and track, station and rolling stock management.

Originally the Kyiv Metro ride cost was 50 kopecks in 1961, following the Soviet revaluation of the rouble, and for the next 30 years, the ride was fixed at 5 kopecks.

Fourth line of the Kyiv Metro will connect the northern Troieschyna districts of the left bank with the future business center of Rybalskiy Island on the Dnieper River, from there it will continue into the Podil region.

In November 2018 Kyiv Metro signed a contract for the build of the Mostytska and Prospekt Pravdy subway stations and a branch line toward the Vynohradar station, the deadline for completion was set for 2021.

Early September 2021 the Chamber of Commerce agreed there was such and the expiration of the contract with the Kyiv Metro was to be postponed from November 2021 to May 2023.

One local story suggests that Yivga Kuznetsova, then a student of Kyiv Metro university, forced the local city council to make all the announcements in Ukrainian only.