Heroiv Dnipra ( ) is a station on

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's Obolonsko–Teremkivska line, in

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. The station was opened on 6 November 1982 in the Obolonskyi Raion of Kyiv and was designed by G.D. Andreev. The underground Metro station is named after the street directly above it. The station is closer to the surface than a lot of other Metro stations. The platform has a central hall with brown square columns. The walls are adorned with white and yellow marble, and the floor is red granite. There were

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s (who became illegal due to 2015 decommunization laws) at the top of the columns, which is also where the station's lighting comes from. The station is accessible by two passenger tunnels; one leading to Obolonskyi Prospect and the other to Heroiv Dnipra Street (from which it takes its name). Voters chose to rename the station Heroiv Ukrainy (; ''Heroes of Ukraine'') in a poll taken during the

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. Another choice was Heroiv Mariupolia. In May 2023 the

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renamed three Kyiv Metro stations, Heroiv Dnipra was not renamed. The last Communist and

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symbols in the station were removed on 7 January 2024.Georgiev tape and Russian military emblems were removed from the Dnieper Heroes metro station in Kyiv
(7 January 2024) Heroiv-Dnipra-2008a

References

External links

— Station description and photographs
Metropoliten.kiev.ua
— Station description and photographs Kyiv Metro stations Railway stations in Ukraine opened in 1982 {{Ukraine-railstation-stub