Universytet (Kiev Metro)

Universytet
Universytet
	Kiev Metro station
	The central station hall with niches featuring busts of important academics.
Location	Shevchenkivskyi District ; Kiev ; Ukraine
Coordinates	50°26′39″N30°30′22″E / 50.44417°N 30.50611°E Coordinates: 50°26′39″N30°30′22″E / 50.44417°N 30.50611°E
Owned by	Kiev Metro
Line(s)	Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	underground
Depth	87 m (285 ft)
Platform levels	1
Other information
Station code	118
History
Opened	6 November 1960
Electrified	Yes
Traffic
Passengers (2008)	23,900 [1]
Services

Last updated April 01, 2019

Universytet (Ukrainian : Унiверситет) is a station on the Kiev Metro's Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line. The station was opened on November 6, 1960 as part of the first stage of the metro's construction.^[2]^[1] It is named after the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, which is located in direct proximity to the station itself.

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The Kiev Metro is a rapid transit system that is the mainstay of Kiev's public transport. It was the first rapid transit system in Ukraine and the third system in the Soviet Union, after Moscow and St. Petersburg. It has three lines with a total length of 67.56 kilometers (41.98 mi) and 52 stations. The system carries 1.331 million passengers daily (2015), accounting for 46.7% of Kiev's public transport load. In 2016, the metro carried 484.56 million passengers. The deepest station in the world, Arsenalna, is found on the system.

Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, colloquially known in Ukrainian as KNU is located in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. KNU is ranked within top 500 Universities in the world. It is the third oldest university in Ukraine after the University of Lviv and University of Kharkiv. Currently, its structure consists of fifteen faculties and five institutes. It was founded in 1834 as the Kiev Imperial University of Saint Vladimir, and since then it has changed its name several times. During the Soviet Union era, Taras Shevchenko University was one of the top-three universities in the USSR, along with Moscow State University and Leningrad State University. It is ranked as the best university in Ukraine in many rankings. Throughout history, the university has produced many famous alumni including Nikolay Bunge, Mykhailo Drahomanov, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Nikolai Berdyaev, Mikhail Bulgakov, Viacheslav Chornovil, Leonid Kravchuk, and many others. Taras Shevchenko himself, banned from educational activities for political reasons, worked for the Kyiv University as a field researcher.

Architecture

The station is a pylon trivault and is considered to be amongst the most beautiful stations in the system, and is currently the only one in Kiev that is the closest in appearance to the famous Stalinist architecture used in the Moscow and Saint Petersburg Metros of the 1950s. It was designed by architects H.Holovka, M.Syrkin, Ye.Ivanov, Zh.Yegulashvili, L.Semenyuk and O.Lozynska.^[1] The red marbled pylons are adorned with white marble busts of famous scientists and Ukrainian literature poets, attributed to sculptors M.Dekermendzhi, A.Bilostotsky, V.Znoba, A.Kobalyov, Ye.Kuntsevych, M.Lysenko, P.Ostapenko, O.Suprun and A.Shapran.

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The white marble friezes also decorate the pylons and lighting is achieved by hidden lamps in the niches of the central vault, and by lamps on the platforms. The walls are covered with orange tiles and the floor is made of various shades of granite arranged in a traditional Ukrainian ornament layout. In the end of the station is white marbled wall, before which a large statue of Vladimir Lenin used to sit. However this was dismantled in the early 1990s, making the station lose its original look.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism known as Leninism; his ideas were posthumously codified as Marxism-Leninism.

The station's large vestibule (monument to architecture) is situated in the middle of the A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden with a gallery allowing direct access to the gardens or to Taras Shevchenko Boulevard. The escalator ride consists of two separate tunnels linked in between by a smaller hall.^[3]

A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden botanical garden

The A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden is one of the oldest botanical gardens in Ukraine, located in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. In 1839 the Kiev Taras Shevchenko University opened its own botanical garden. The botanical garden is 22.5 hectares (0.225 km²), with 8,000 plant species, including 143 recorded in the Ukraine's Red Book of Rare Species. The Garden is famous for its exotic plants: it has the biggest collection of succulents among the countries of the former Soviet Union. The greenhouse, which was built for the largest and the oldest palm trees in Northern Eurasia, is among the highest in the world. In 1935 the garden was named after the academician and botanist Aleksandr Vasiljevich Fomin, who directed the garden for years. The vestibule of the Kiev Metro station Universytet, is located on the northern edge of the garden, which was opened in 1960.(Google Maps link).

2011 Bomb Scare

On April 15, 2011 a suspicious package was discovered at Universytet. The station was evacuated and Ukrainian Security Services investigated, determining that the package was not dangerous.^[4] The scare followed the April 11th 2011 Minsk Metro bombing.

The 2011 Minsk Metro bombing occurred on 11 April 2011 when at least 15 people were killed and more than two hundred were injured in an explosion on the Minsk Metro, Belarus. The explosion happened at the central Kastryčnickaja station at 17:55 local time.

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References

1 2 3 "Universytet". Kyiv Metropoliten Official Website (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 21 March 2012.
↑ Kyiv Metro Subway celebrates 58th anniversary on Nov 6, UNIAN (6 November 2018)
↑ "Station "Universitet"". Kievskoe Metro (in Russian). Retrieved 21 March 2012.
↑ "Universytet metro station in Kyiv operating normally after bomb scare". Interfax-Ukraine . Kyiv Post. April 15, 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2012.

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[metro-1] 1 2 3 "Universytet". Kyiv Metropoliten Official Website (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 21 March 2012.

[10327236-kyiv-metroy-2] Kyiv Metro Subway celebrates 58th anniversary on Nov 6, UNIAN (6 November 2018)

[kievskoe-3] "Station "Universitet"". Kievskoe Metro (in Russian). Retrieved 21 March 2012.

[4] "Universytet metro station in Kyiv operating normally after bomb scare". Interfax-Ukraine . Kyiv Post. April 15, 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2012.

v t e Kiev Metro
List of stations
Sviatoshynsko–Brovarska line	Akademmistechko Zhytomyrska Sviatoshyn Nyvky Beresteiska Shuliavska Politekhnichnyi Instytut Vokzalna Universytet Teatralna Khreshchatyk Arsenalna Dnipro Hydropark Livoberezhna Darnytsia Chernihivska Lisova
Obolonsko–Teremkivska line	Heroiv Dnipra Minska Obolon Pochaina Tarasa Shevchenka Kontraktova Ploshcha Poshtova Ploshcha Maidan Nezalezhnosti Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho Olimpiiska Palats "Ukrayina" Lybidska Demiivska Holosiivska Vasylkivska Vystavkovyi Tsentr Ipodrom Teremky
Syretsko–Pecherska line	Syrets Dorohozhychi Lukianivska Lvivska Brama Zoloti Vorota Palats Sportu Klovska Pecherska Druzhby Narodiv Vydubychi Telychka Slavutych Osokorky Pozniaky Kharkivska Vyrlytsia Boryspilska Chervony Khutir
Future lines Podilsko–Vyhurivska line Livoberezhna line Vyshhorodsko–Darnytska line Bridges Metro Pivdennyi Podilskyi