Kiev Metro: scheme and mode of operation

Metropolitan of Kiev - the old communication. Kievans are already so accustomed to this transport that they do not know how else it is possible to overcome long distances within the city within a short time. Let's talk about the Kiev metro and its features.

Metro scheme

Visiting in Kiev it will be difficult only at first. The metro grid allows you to get to distant areas in a short time. To figure out where to go, help scheme metro Kiev. It is presented in many copies in a prominent place at each station.

To all who are just beginning to recognize the city, one must remember that it is customary to use in the written description of one or another route the abbreviation of the word "station" - "art."

Metro Kiev for help in the orientation in the subway offers information signs. They are located at the eye level of the person walking, sometimes higher or near the ceiling. The tablets contain information about the stations where you can get to, for each specific direction.

Operating mode

Kiev metro stations open at a time such that residents of the capital can get to work on time. Therefore, the average time when the subway is ready to receive passengers is 5.45 am.

The exact mode of opening and closing is at each station. It depends on its location: those that are further from the center, usually open earlier. So, the metro station "Kharkovskaya" (Kiev), located on the left bank of the Dnieper, opens at 5.28, and closes a minute after midnight. This time is important for those residents of the capital who need to get to work by 7-8 am, especially if you need to go from the right bank of the Dnieper. Already at 7 am on the subway trains you can see a lively traffic, however the peak hour on the branch comes from 8 to 9 o'clock.

Like the entire waking up early in Kiev, the metro Darnitsa on the left bank is hurrying to open at 5.27. The last passengers leave the station at 00.06. Scheme of the Kiev Metro will help you navigate in the location of the stations and calculate the time needed for the road to the destination. Also we will inform that the station "Teatralnaya" (until 00.18, the transition station with the red on the green branch, the station "Zoloti Vorota") is the longest working station, the Hippodrome (the blue branch, 23.54) closes before all.

According to a special schedule, Kiev metro stations work during holidays and on days of football matches. Fans have an hour more time to go home, but Art. "Olympic" and "Palace of Sports" are closed one hour before the game. The same mode of operation of the metropolitan of the capital of Ukraine for the New Year, Easter, Independence Day (August 24), except for the mentioned changes for Art. "Olympic" and "Palace of Sports."

Directions: conditions, cost

Travel in the Kiev metro is carried out by plastic tokens. For a long time, until mid-February 2015, they were the same sample and the colors - blue. The cost of the token was 2 hryvnia (about 5 Russian rubles). After changes in the price policy, travel tokens were replaced by green ones (shades varied), and throughput mechanisms were re-equipped gradually, until March 2015. New tokens cost 4 hryvnia (respectively, about 10 rubles).

For schoolchildren and civil servants the conditions of travel are special. Also there is an opportunity to save with the help of special cards.

Structure of the Kiev Metro

At the moment (March 2015) Kiev metro consists of three branches: red (M1), blue (M2) and green (M3). Of these, two (red and green) cross the main river of the country - the Dnieper - and help residents quickly get from the right bank to the left and vice versa. The blue branch is located only on the left bank.

With Art. "Theater" (red branch) can be transferred to the "Golden Gate" (green), with art. "Palace of Sports" (green) - the "Square of Leo Tolstoy" (blue). From "Khreshchatyk" (red branch) the transition can be made to the "Independence Square" (blue branch).

About some stations

Each metro station in Kiev has its own characteristics. So, "Slavutich" is a modern design in the urban style. But the "Theater" (the transition to the "Golden Gate") is recognized as one of the most beautiful in Europe. What is only the lighting of the station's premises, made in the form of metal candelabra with a lot of candle-bulbs.

The station "Vokzalnaya" (right bank, red branch) is the busiest for obvious reasons. Every day more than 68 thousand people cross it. Among them are many city visitors, students traveling home for the weekend. It is followed by the station "Lesnaya" (also a red branch, but the left bank) - 66 thousand people a day. The third busiest station in Kiev is Petrovka, which is located just outside the well-known market of the same name (the name of the station and went from it).

The smallest passenger traffic is at the metro station "Dnepr", as well as "Krasny Khutor". The latter, by the way, is located in the distance from the center (along the green branch) and in general from residential areas, which is not very convenient. But here the passengers are waiting for the picturesque nature, and this station is also useful.

Attracts the attention of newcomers art. "Lviv Brama" ("Lvivska Brama") on a blue branch. The fact is that, in fact, it is not, because there are no outlets upstairs. In many trains on metro schemes, it does so with an ambiguous purpose. Serves it only to transport workers' subways: often the passengers of the first car see how the train stops not at the usual station and people from the driver's cab are planted in the form of workers in the subway.

Summary

In our article-review of the Kiev metro we collected the necessary data for the guest of the capital: introduced to the metro scheme, told about the time of work of different stations and prepared for the price policy.

The scheme of the Kiev metro is quite simple, for example, in comparison with the scheme of the St. Petersburg subway. There are only three branches and three transitional stations here. Without special hiccups, you can get to remote corners of the city from 6 am to 12 noon.