Ploshcha Ukrainskykh Heroiv ( uk, Площа Українських Героїв, , Square of Ukrainian Heroes) is a station on
Kyiv Metro
The Kyiv Metro ( uk, Ки́ївський метрополіте́н, Kyivskyi metropoliten, ) is a rapid transit system in Kyiv that is owned by the Kyiv City Council and operated by the city-owned company Kyivsky Metropoliten''.'' It was initi ...
's
Obolonsko–Teremkivska Line. Until May 2023 it was named ''Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho'' ( uk, Площа Льва Толстого, ). The station was opened on 19 December 1981, and was named after the writer
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...
.
[In Kyiv, metro station "Petrivka" and Tolstoy Street will "disappear": all the details]
Segodnya
''Segodnya'' ( rus, Сегодня, p=sʲɪˈvodʲnʲə, t=Today, a=Ru-сегодня.ogg) was a Russian-language Ukrainian tabloid newspaper founded in 1997. While run from Kyiv, it was linked to Donbass political and business groups; its hold ...
(19 April 2017) Tolstoy had visited the city only once.
The station was designed by N.A. Levchuk and V.B. Zhezheryn.
The station is located deep underground and consists of a central hall with arcades in the walls. The central hall has been covered with orange-coloured marble and is lit by chandeliers and decorative lamps placed on the walls. Passenger tunnels connect the station to the
Square of Ukrainian Heroes and another street.
The station forms a station complex with a transfer tunnel with the adjoining
Palats Sportu station on the
Syretsko–Pecherska line
The Syretsko–Pecherska line () is the third line of the Kyiv Metro, first opened in 1989. It extends the metro system southeast along the right bank of the Dnieper River before crossing it on a covered bridge and then east from there. The nor ...
.
In a May 2022 online poll (with 170,000 respondents) taken during the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...
voters chose to rename the station to Vasylia Stusa (named after
Vasyl Stus
Vasyl Semenovych Stus ( uk, Васи́ль Семе́нович Стус; 6 January 1938, Rakhnivka, Ukrainian SSR – 4 September 1985, Perm-36, Kuchino, Russian SFSR) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active ...
)
Another choice was Liny Kostenko (named after
Lina Kostenko
Lina Vasylivna Kostenko ( uk, Ліна Василівна Костенко; born 19 March 1930) is a Ukrainian poet, journalist, writer, publisher, and former Soviet dissident. A founder and leading representative of the Sixtiers poetry movem ...
)
On Friday 13 January 2023 the
Kyiv City Council
Kyiv City Council ( uk, Київська міська рада, translit=Kyivska miska rada), also known as Kyivrada ( uk, Київрада), is the city council of Kyiv municipality, the highest representative body of the city community. The me ...
announced the metro station would be renamed.
In a poll organised by them Kyiv residents cast more than 100,000 votes for the renaming of seven city objects, including this and
another metro stations.
The majority of the votes went to the name
Ukrainian Heroes Square.
On 18 May 2023 the Kyiv City Council renamed the station to this name.
References
External links
Kyivsky Metropoliten— Station description and photographs
Metropoliten.kiev.ua— Station description and photographs
Kyiv Metro stations
Railway stations opened in 1981
1981 establishments in Ukraine
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