Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho (Kyiv Metro)
Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho (Ukrainian: Площа Льва Толстого, (
listen)) is a station on Kyiv Metro's Obolonsko–Teremkivska Line. The station was opened on 19 December 1981, and is named after the writer Leo Tolstoy (who visited Kyiv only once[1]). It was designed by N.A. Levchuk and V.B. Zhezheryn.
Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho | ||||||||||||||||
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 Kyiv Metro station | ||||||||||||||||
 The Station Hall | ||||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | Shevchenkivskyi District Kyiv Ukraine | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°26′22″N 30°31′00″E | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Kyiv Metro | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) |  Obolonsko–Teremkivska line | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||||
| Structure type | underground | |||||||||||||||
| Platform levels | 1 | |||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 218 | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 19 December 1981 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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The station is located deep underground and consists of a central hall with arcades in the walls. The central hall has been covered with orange-coloured marble and is lit by chandeliers and decorative lamps placed on the walls. Passenger tunnels connect the station to the Leo Tolstoy Square and another street.
The station forms a station complex with a transfer tunnel with the adjoining Palats Sportu station on the Syretsko-Pecherska Line.
References
- (in Russian) In Kiev, "disappear" metro station "Petrovka" and Tolstoy Street: all the details, Segodnya (19 April 2017)
External links
- Kyivsky Metropoliten — Station description and photographs (in Ukrainian)
- Metropoliten.kiev.ua — Station description and photographs (in Russian)
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