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 ...
Kyiv
Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...
. The station was opened as part of the Obolonsko–Teremkivska Line on 30 December 1984, located between the Palats "Ukrayina" and Demiivska stations.
The station provides passenger access to Lybdiska Square, under which it is located. It served as the line's southern terminus for 26 years until 2010, when the line was extended to Vasylkivska. After the fall of Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the station was renamed "Lybidska" after a nearby river—
Lybid
The Lybid () is a small river in Kyiv, Ukraine. A right tributary of the Dnieper, it flows within the "Right Bank" (original) part of the city, just to the west of the historic center. The Lybid has played an important role in shaping Kyiv's ur ...
, on 2 February 1993.
In 2011, the station was listed as a "newly discovered object of cultural heritage," and monuments of architecture, town planning, and art. In May 2016, it was decided that the Soviet decorative piece at the end of the central hall would be removed to be displayed at a museum in accordance with the 2015 decommunization laws.
, Lybidska has a daily ridership of 28,500, and is operational every day from 05:48 to 00:00.
Construction
Originally, a metro station was not planned for this area, since there were no large residential neighborhoods or important transport interchanges nearby. During the planning process, the station bore the name "Ploshcha Dzerzhynskoho" or "Zavod Imeni Dzerzhynskoho," referring to the nearby square and industrial plant, the name was finally shortened to Dzerzhynska (). All the names commemorated Felix Dzerzhynsky, a communist politician of the Soviet Union.
The station was built as a temporary terminus, owing to the complexity of the hydro-geological situation in the area that would become the Holosiivska extension of the Obolonsko–Teremkivska Line. The line's extension southwards lasted more than 15 years and became a major issue for commuters during rush hours. The station was one of the busiest terminus stations since many bus and
marshrutka
''Marshrutnoye taksi''Tamara Tselikovska, Oleksiy Panchenko, in addition to artists Ernest Kotkov, Nikolai Bartossik. Prior to its renaming, the station featured a large
bas-relief
Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term ''relief'' is from the Latin verb , to raise (). To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that th ...
by M. Vronsky depicting Dzerzhinsky himself, although this was removed shortly after the station was renamed.
Located at a depth of 25 metres underground, Lybidska was designed as a
deep column station
A metro station or subway station is a train station for a rapid transit system, which as a whole is usually called a "metro" or "subway". A station provides a means for passengers to purchase Train ticket, tickets, board trains, and Emerg ...
that features three separate halls —a central hall, and two platform halls— which are separated from each other by a row of columns. The row of columns in the station is unique in that it was designed as a double row, leaving an empty space in between each of the two rows. The station does not have a ground-level vestibule on Lybidska Square and there is only one exit, which is connected to the station's central hall by an escalator tunnel.