The Kyivska ( uk, Київська, ) is a station on
Kharkiv Metro
The Kharkiv Metro ( uk, Харківське метро or Харківський метрополітен) is the rapid transit system that serves the city of Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine. The metro was the second in Ukraine (afte ...
's
Saltivska Line
The Saltivska line ( uk, Салтівська лінія, russian: Салтовская линия) is the second line of the Kharkiv Metro operating since 1984, serving Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine. The Saltivska Line is the short ...
. The station was opened on 11 August 1984.
The name of the metro station on the stations walls was originally written in
Russian, in September 2023 these Russian letters were replaced with ones that depict the name of the station in
Ukrainian
Ukrainian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Ukraine
* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
* Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine
* So ...
as part of
Ukraine's derussification campaign following the
Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In addition, an image of the
hammer and sickle
The hammer and sickle (Unicode: "☭") zh, s=锤子和镰刀, p=Chuízi hé liándāo or zh, s=镰刀锤子, p=Liándāo chuízi, labels=no is a symbol meant to represent proletarian solidarity, a union between agricultural and industri ...
which is prohibited in Ukraine according 2015
Ukrainian decommunization laws
Ukrainian decommunization laws refer to four Ukrainian laws of 2015. These laws relate to decommunization as well as commemoration of Ukrainian history. Such laws have been referred to as " memory laws".
As a result of the law mandating the remov ...
, was removed from the walls.
References
Kharkiv Metro stations
Railway stations opened in 1984
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
Ukrainian responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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