Kiev-Pasazhyrskyi Railway Station

Kiev-Pasazhyrskyi
Kiev-Pasazhyrskyi
	Southwestern Railway terminal
Location	Vokzalna Ploshcha, Kiev, Ukraine
Coordinates	50°26′26″N 30°29′22″E
Owned by	Ukrzaliznytsia
Platforms	7
Tracks	14
Connections	tram, Metro (Vokzalna station, Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line)
Construction
Structure type	at-grade
Parking	yes
History
Opened	1870
Rebuilt	1932, 2001
Electrified	1950
Services

Kiev-Pasazhyrskyi (Kiev-Passenger, Ukrainian: Київ-Пасажирський) is a railway station in the capital of Ukraine, Kiev. It is a big complex and railway hub consisting of several railroad station buildings, railyard, and other railroad infrastructure such as the Kiev Electrical and Railcar Maintenance Factory. The station is located on so called Kiev Southern Railway loop.

Serving more than 170,000 passengers per day (as of 2005), station contains several buildings. The Central Station building connected with the Southern Station building by overpass is the main feature of the railway station. The station complex thus provides long-distance and international services, and short-distance service (elektrichka) for suburbs (including dacha areas), minor city stations, and nearby regions.

The Kiev Metro station Vokzalna[1] adjoins the complex, constituting the station's main intersection with city transport. The Kiev tram terminal Starovokzal'na (Ukrainian: Старовокзальна) (the terminal for Kiev's High-Speed Tram line) is also adjacent via a passageway.

History and architecture

The old Kiev railroad station was constructed during 1868-1870, as a part of Kiev-Balta and Kiev-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 entranceway 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 the date. The construction of the southern station building was done on efforts of Heorhiy Kirpa.

Name disambiguation

Officially, Kiev-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 Kiev-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 Kiev-Pasazhyrskyi (literally Kiev Passenger) is also used to differentiate it from other railway stations across the city such as Kiev-Volynsky, Kiev-Demiivskii, Kiev-Tovarny, 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 .
Extension of the Podilsko-Vyhurivska Metro Line, which is now under construction on the banks of Dineper river, to the Vokzalna metro station.

Trains and destinations

International Routes

Train number	Destination	Operated by
005Я/006К	Moscow (Kiyevsky)	Ukrainian Railways
023М/024Ш	Moscow (Kiyevsky) Odessa	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 Odessa	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

Photos

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

External links

South-Western railway of Ukraine - Official website (in Ukrainian, English, and Russian)
Ukraine Train Tickets - Online Sales

Previous station		Operator		Next Station
Karavayevi Dachi		Southwestern Railways		Protasiv Yar

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[1] Part of Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line.

[2] "The Capital's Railway Station". Southwestern Railways of Ukraine. Retrieved April 12, 2006.

[FOOTNOTEЮнаков201640-3] Юнаков 2016, p. 40.

[4] "CIS Train Schedule". Railsoft,Inc. Retrieved February 22, 2010.