Pochaina (, ) is a station on the Obolonsko–Teremkivska line of the

Kyiv Metro The Kyiv Metro (, ) is a rapid transit system in Kyiv, Ukraine, owned by the Kyiv City Council and operated by the city-owned company Kyivskyi Metropoliten''.'' It was initially opened on 6 November 1960, as a single line with five stations. I ...

system that serves

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, the capital of

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. The station was opened on 19 December 1980 in the

Petrivka Petrivka may refer to several places in Ukraine: * Petrivka, Kyiv, the historical neighborhood in Ukrainian capital Kyiv, as well as some notable objects located there, including: ** Petrivka Railway Station, railway station * Petrivka, Khmelnytsky ...

neighborhood of the Podilskyi Raion of Kyiv near Pochaina Railway Station. It was designed by I.L. Maslenkov, T.A. Tselikovska, A.S. Krushynskyi, and F.M. Zaremba. The station is located shallow underground and consists of a central hall with columns. The walls along the tracks have been covered with yellow marble and decorated with two abstract reliefs. Hanging above one of the entrances into the station's hall is a colorful mosaic. The station is accessible by passenger tunnels; the northern one leading to a square, the southern one — to Pochaina Railway Station. On the 8 February 2018,

Kyiv city council Kyiv City Council (, ), also known as Kyivrada (), is the city council of Kyiv municipality, the highest representative body of the city community. The members of city council are directly elected by Kyivans and the council is chaired by the M ...

voted to rename Petrivka which commemorated communist politician

Grigory Petrovsky Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky (, ; 4 February 1878 – 10 January 1958) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician and Old Bolshevik. He participated in signing the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Treaty of Brest-L ...

to Pochaina after the Pochaina river (in which Prince Volodymyr baptized

citizens), according to the decommunization law.

References

External links

Kyiv Metro
— Station description and photographs
Metropoliten.kiev.ua
— Station description and photographs Kyiv Metro stations Railway stations in Ukraine opened in 1980 {{Ukraine-railstation-stub