Kiev Metro

№298 Оболонського району м. Києва Творча презентація з курсу за вибором “Гіди

- перекладачі” на тему: Kiev Metro Виконав учень 10-а класу Бородай Денис Київ 2013

was the first rapid transit system in Ukraine and the third one built

in the USSR (after Moscow and St Petersburg Metros). It now has three lines with a total length of 66 kilometres (41 miles) and 51 stations. The system carries more than a million passengers daily. One of the deepest stations in the world, Arsenalna (at 105.5 m or 346 ft), is found on the system.

back to 1916 when businessmen of the Russo-American trading corporation

attempted to collect funds to sponsor construction of a metro in Kiev, which previously has been a pioneering city for Imperial Russian rapid transit, like opening of the first Russian tram system. Following the Bolsheviks' victory in the Russian Civil War, Kiev became only a provincial city and no large-scale proposals to improve the city were drawn.

war, a massive reconstruction was opened for the capital of

the third largest city in the USSR. This time the Metro was in the plan and construction began in August 1949. Eleven years later the first 5.2 kilometre segment from the Vokzalna to Dnipro.

and the first three stations were opened in 1976. What

became known as the Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line continued expanding.

three station segment to open in 1989 in central Kiev.

for their vivid and colourful decorations, Kiev's is no exception.

The original stations of the first stage are elaborately decorated, showing the postwar Stalinist architecture blended with traditional Ukrainian motifs.

a recovery. The stations built from the 1980s onwards show

more innovative design when compared with stations of the same era in other cities of the former USSR.

from cashiers at all stations or from automatic exchange machines

that exchange 2 and 10 Hryvnia bills into tokens. The current tokens are of blue color; before 2008 green tokens were used that are no longer valid.