Yaroslava Mudroho ( uk, Ярослава Мудрого, ) is a station on the Kharkiv Metro's

Saltivska Line The Saltivska line ( uk, Салтівська лінія, russian: Салтовская линия) is the second line of the Kharkiv Metro operating since 1984, serving Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine. The Saltivska Line is the short ...

. Construction on the station began on 16 April 1977, and it opened on 10 August 1984, which made it the eighth station of the Saltivska Line. It is located in

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Hryhorii Skovoroda street that was named (after the Russian poet

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

) Pushkinska street at the time of the station's opening until 26 January 2024. Four days after the renaming of Pushkinska street Kharkiv Mayor

Ihor Terekhov Ihor Oleksandrovych Terekhov ( uk, Ігор Олександрович Терехов; born 14 January 1967) is a Ukrainian politician who is serving as the Mayor of Kharkiv since 11 November 2021. He ascended to the mayoralty on 24 December 2020 ...

stated that all toponyms in Kharkiv associated with

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

will be renamed within three to four months, including the renaming of Pushkinska metro station.

Station

The station was opened on 10 August 1984 as "Pushkinska" under a street named after Russian poet

since 1899. The metro station lies more than underground which makes it the deepest station of the Kharkiv Metro system. Bust pushkinu

On 12 January 2024 a

bas-relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term '' relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that th ...

of Alexander Pushkin was removed from the metro station and other artwork in the station that had incorporated

poetry by Aleksandr Pushkin Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in ...

was also removed. As part of a

deRussification Derussification (or derussianization) is a process or public policy in different states of the former Russian Empire and the Soviet Union or certain parts of them, aimed at restoring national identity of indigenous peoples: their language, culture ...

-effort the previous year in Kharkiv a monument to Pushkin was dismantled, Pushkin’s name was removed from the name of the , and all the murals with portraits of the poet were erased. On 26 January 2024 the

Kharkiv City Council Kharkiv ( uk, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest city and municipality in Ukraine.

renamed the street after which the metro station was named (Pushkinska street) to Hryhorii Skovoroda street. The street was renamed in response to a 23 January 2024 Russian bombing of Kharkiv that cased 9 victims, including a 4-year-old child. In the this attack the Pushkinska Street had been hit. On 30 January 2024 Kharkiv Mayor

stated that in all toponyms in the city associated with

will be renamed within three to four months, including the renaming of Pushkinska metro station.

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