Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi railway station

Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi
Southwestern Railway terminal
General information
Location	Vokzalna Ploshcha, Kyiv, Ukraine
Coordinates	50°26′26″N 30°29′22″E / 50.44056°N 30.48944°E / 50.44056; 30.48944
Owned by	Ukrzaliznytsia
Platforms	7
Tracks	14
Connections	tram, light rail, metro (Vokzalna Sviatoshynsko–Brovarska line)
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Other information
Station code	320308
History
Opened	1870
Rebuilt	1932, 2001
Electrified	1950
Services
Preceding station   Ukrzaliznytsia   Following station Karavaievi Dachi   Southwestern Railways   Kyiv-Tovarnyi     Protasiv Yar Terminus   Kyiv Boryspil Express   Vydubychi Preceding station   Kyivpastrans   Following station Karavaievi Dachi   Kyiv Urban Rail   Protasiv Yar

Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi (Kyiv-Passenger, Ukrainian: Київ-Пасажирський) is a railway station in the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv. The station is a railway hub consisting of several railroad station buildings, along with its own repair facilities the Kyiv Electric Railcar Repair Shop, a railway depot with railyard, and the railway sports complex, which is integrated into the cityscape. The station is part of the so-called Kyiv Southern Railway loop.

Serving more than 170,000 passengers per day (as of 2005), the complex contains several buildings. The Central and Southern (Pivdennyi) Station buildings are located on both sides of the tracks used by long-distance trains, connected with an overpass leading the station platform. They serve international trains, most Ukrzaliznytsia passenger trains, some suburban trains, and the Kyiv Boryspil Express to the Boryspil International Airport. Adjacent to the Central building is the Suburban (Prymiskyi) station building which serves short-distance service (elektrichka) for suburbs (including dacha areas), minor city stations, and nearby regions as well as the Kyivpastrans' urban rail passing through the Vokzalna railway stop (before 2024 known as Northern, or Pivnichna station).^[1]

The Kyiv Metro station Vokzalna of the Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line adjoins the complex, constituting the station's main intersection with city transport. The Kyiv tram station Starovokzalna (the terminal of Kyiv's Right-Bank high-speed tram line) is also adjacent via a passageway.

History and architecture

The old Kyiv railroad station was constructed from 1868 to 1870, as a part of Kyiv-Balta and Kyiv-Kursk railroad constructions, which were also completed in 1870. The station was located in a valley of Lybid’ river, replacing soldiers' and gendarmes' settlements. The two-floor brick station building of Old English Gothic style was by the architect М. V. Vyshnevetskyi.^[2]

The current Central Station building was constructed in 1927-1932 and designed by O. Verbytskyi. It was built in the style of Ukrainian Baroque with some elements of Constructivism. The Central Station building is designated as the Landmark of Architecture, numbered 193. The equipment and interior of the hall of deputies of the Supreme Council at the station was made by the architect Irma Karakis.^[3]

In 2001, the building was restored to roughly its original state. In the same year, the new modern "Southern Station" building was erected at the opposite side of Central Station's sixteen tracks, being in reality not a separate station but merely another large entrance way to the Central Station, with new ticket windows and linked by a hallway above the track accesses. Both buildings are connected with an overpass for passengers. The renovation project also included two large underground parking structures, one of which remains uncompleted to date. The construction of the southern station building was done on the efforts of Heorhiy Kirpa.

Name disambiguation

Officially, Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi railway station is regarded as the whole huge complex of passenger terminals, railways, depots etc. with respective personnel. Practically, such installations in post-Soviet countries are widely known as railroad vokzals, which means the building(s) and services immediately serving passengers for various types of transport. The official name Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi is not used colloquially, appearing only in tickets, schedules etc. By the same token, the locally popular terms "Central Station" and "Southern Station" do not appear in such technical literature, as for internal purposes they are treated as the same location.^[4]

The name Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi (literally Kyiv Passenger) is also used to differentiate it from other railway stations across the city such as Kyiv-Volynskyi, Kyiv-Demiivskyi, Kyiv-Tovarnyi, and others.

Development plans

Currently, the station is severely overloaded with suburban traffic, intercity traffic (especially during the height of winter and summer holidays), and also subway traffic (in daily rush hours). Relief plans include:

• Upgrading Darnytsia station to make it a second long-distance passenger station, serving the Left-Bank of the city (including new sleeping car maintenance facility.)
• Construction of a second surface entrance for the Vokzalna metro station, which is currently the most overloaded station of the metro system.^[5]
• Extension of the Podilsko-Vyhurivska Metro Line, which is now under construction on the banks of Dnipro river, to the Vokzalna metro station.
• Moving the Starovokzalna tram station closer in order to make it more accessible and extending the tram line which now serves only the northwestern districts into the city center^[6]

Trains and destinations

International Routes

Train number	Destination	Operated by
005Я/006К	Moscow (Kiyevsky)	Ukrainian Railways
023М/024Ш	Moscow (Kiyevsky) Odesa	Ukrainian Railways
031К/031Р	Riga	Belarusian Railways Ukrainian Railways
047Щ/047Ь 065М/066Щ 341Ф/341Ь	Moscow (Kiyevsky) Chișinău	Moldovan Railways
053А/054К	Saint Petersburg (Vitebsky)	Ukrainian Railways
067К/068Л	Warsaw (Centralna)	Ukrainian Railways
073А/074Л	Moscow (Kiyevsky) Lviv	Ukrainian Railways
081Д/8862	Košice	Ukrainian Railways
086Б/086К	Minsk	Belarusian Railways
094Б/094Ш	Minsk Odesa	Ukrainian Railways
117П/380Л	Bucharest (North)	Ukrainian Railways
369Щ/370К	Baku	Azerbaijan Railways
705К/705Л 715К/715Л	Przemyśl	Ukrainian Railways
749Д/6302	Wrocław	PKP Ukrainian Railways
40147/40749	Vienna (Hauptbahnhof)	ÖBB

All international rail services to Russia have been suspended after the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War. It is uncertain if services between Russia and Ukraine will resume in the foreseeable future, even in peacetime.

Photos

• 
  Main station building at night
• 
  Symon Petliura street leading to the railway station
• 
  On the left is a suburban rail, further back is the main station
• 
  Suburban station building
• 
  The adjacent railyard, intended to sort out and combine railcars
• 
  One of the drafts of main station building
• 
  The former two-platform brick station building of Old English Gothic style in the 19th century.
• 
  Railwaymen Monument

See also

• Ukrzaliznytsia - the national railway company of Ukraine

References

Citations

Bibliography

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi Railway Station.

• South-Western railway of Ukraine Archived 2016-08-08 at the Wayback Machine - Official website (in Ukrainian, English, and Russian)
• [1] Ukraine Train Tickets - Online Sales

This page was last edited on 16 April 2024, at 02:12