Druzhby Narodiv or Friendship of Peoples (Ukrainian: Дружби Народів, (
listen), named after the road above the station) is a station of Kyiv Metro's Syretsko-Pecherska Line. It is situated between Pecherska and Vydubychi stations. This station was opened on 30 December 1991.
Druzhby Narodiv  | |||||||||||
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| Kyiv Metro station | |||||||||||
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| Location | Pecherskyi District Kyiv Ukraine | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°25′5″N 30°32′42″E / 50.41806°N 30.54500°ECoordinates: 50°25′5″N 30°32′42″E / 50.41806°N 30.54500°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Kyiv Metro | ||||||||||
| Line(s) |  Syretsko–Pecherska line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | underground | ||||||||||
| Platform levels | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 318 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 30 December 1991 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | ||||||||||
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Druzhby Narodiv station was designed by architects Alyoshkin and Krushynskiy. It is a deep level station. The station is connected by escalators with a passenger tunnel situated under Druzhby Narodiv boulevard.
Druzhby Narodiv station operates from 05:43 to 00:12.
On Friday 13 January 2023 the Kyiv City Council announced the metro station would be renamed.[1] In a poll organised by them Kyiv residents cast more than 100,000 votes for the renaming of seven city objects, including this and the metro station Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho.[1] In a May 2022 online poll (with 170,000 respondents) voters chose to rename the station Botanical[2] (Ukrainian: Ботанічний) - after the nearby Hryshko National Botanical Garden - in a poll taken during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine; other choices included European and Red Vibernum.[3] The Druzhba Narodiv boulevard itself was renamed to Mykola Mikhnovsky boulevard on 8 December 2022.[4] In the January 2023 poll the majority of votes went to the name Zvirynets (Ukrainian: Звіринець), a historical neighbourhood inside Pecherskyi District where the metro station is situated in.[1]
ReferencesEdit
- ^ a b c "The metropolitan metro stations "Friendship of Peoples" and "Lev Tolstoy Square" will receive new names". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 2022-01-13. Retrieved 2023-01-13.
- ^ "Kyiv selects new names for Soviet-linked metro stations". BBC. 2022-05-10. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ^ Valentina Romanenko (2022-05-02). ""Борщ", "Реактивные гуси", "Имени Магистра Йоды": как киевляне предлагали переименовать станции метро" (in Russian). Ukrayinska Pravda. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ^ Oleksandr Shumilin (8 December 2022). "n Kyiv, 32 more streets were de-Russified, including Druzhby Narodiv Boulevard". Ukrayinska Pravda (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 8 December 2022.
External linksEdit
- (in Ukrainian) Kyivsky Metropoliten - Station description and Photographs
- (in Russian) Metropoliten.kiev.ua - Station description and Photographs
- Photo of the Station from WikiMaps
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