Kiev-Pasazhyrskyi 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, 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 for suburbs, minor city stations, and nearby regions. The Kiev Metro stationVokzalna adjoins the complex, constituting the station's main intersection with city transport. The Kiev tram terminal Starovokzal'na 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. 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. 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 :ru:Вокзал|vokzals, which means the building and services immediately serving passengers for various types of transport. The official nameKiev-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. The name Kiev-Pasazhyrskyi 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, and also subway traffic. Relief plans include:
