Moscow Kiyevskaya railway station

Moscow Kiyevskaya
Moscow Railway terminal
File:Kievski railstation.JPG View of the station from the banks of the Moskva River
Location	Kiyevskogo Vokzala square, Moscow Russia
Coordinates
Line(s)	Kiev Line
Platforms	11
Tracks	12
Connections	Moscow Metro stations:  3  Kiyevskaya  4  Kiyevskaya  5  Kiyevskaya
Other information
Station code	198103
Fare zone	0
History
Opened	1918
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Railway   Following station Terminus Kiev Line Moskva-Tovarnaya-Kiyevskaya toward [[Template:S-line/Moscow Railway right/Kiev railway station|Template:S-line/Moscow Railway right/Kiev]]
Location
Moscow Kiyevskaya Location within Moscow Ring Road

Kiyevsky railway terminal (Russian: Ки́евский вокза́л, Kievskiy vokzal) also known as Moscow Kiyevskaya railway station (Russian: Москва́-Ки́евская, Moskva-Kievskaya) is one of the nine railway terminals of Moscow, Russia. It is the only railway station in Moscow to have a frontage on the Moskva River. The station is located at the Square of Europe, in the beginning of Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya Street in Dorogomilovo District of Moscow.

As the name suggests there are regular services to Kiev as well as Belgrade, Zagreb, Varna, Bucharest, Sofia, Niš, Budapest, Prague, Vienna and Venice. A hub of the Moscow Metro is located nearby.

History and design

The station was built between 1914 and 1918 in the Byzantine Revival style pronounced in the 51 m (167 ft) high clocktower. Originally named the Bryansk station, it was designed by Ivan Rerberg and Vladimir Shukhov, it is considered an important landmark of architecture and engineering of the time.

The station's building is flanked by a gigantic landing platform which is distinguished by its simplicity and constructive boldness. The platforms are covered by a massive glassed arch structures (length 321 metres (1,053 ft), width 47.9 metres (157 ft), height 30 m (98 ft), weight of the structures is over 1250 ton) in the form of a parabola. Open-work steel trusses are clearly visible, and they demonstrate the elegance of the grandiose building.

Trains and destinations

Long distance

Train number	Train name	Destination	Operated by
001/002	Stolichny Express (rus: Столичный Экспресс, ukr: Столичний Експрес)	Kiev (Passenger)	Russian Railways Ukrainian Railways
003/004	Kyiv (ukr: Київ)	Kiev (Passenger) (cars: Bucharest, Sofia)	Ukrainian Railways
005/006	Ukrayina (ukr: Україна)	Kiev (Passenger)	Ukrainian Railways
015/016	Tisa (rus: Тиса)	Uzhhorod (Central) (cars: Bratislava, Košice, Žilina, Zvolen, Budapest, Belgrade, Zagreb, Bar, Thessaloniki, Venice)	Russian Railways
023/024	Odesa (ukr: Одеса)	Odessa (cars: Truskavets)	Ukrainian Railways
047/048	Moldova (mol: Moldova)	Chişinău	Calea Ferată din Moldova
059/060	Bolgaria-Express (rus: Болгария-Экспресс)	Sofia (cars: Burgas, Varna)	Russian Railways
065/066	Sodruzhestvo (rus: Содружество)	Chişinău	Russian Railways
077/078	Volyn (ukr: Волинь)	Kovel	Ukrainian Railways
099/100	Ivan Paristy (rus: Иван Паристый)	Bryansk	Russian Railways
117/118	Sumy (ukr: Суми)	Sumy	Ukrainian Railways

Other destinations

Country	Destinations
Russia	Anapa, Kaluga, Klimov, Lgov, Novozybkov
Ukraine	Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Khmelnytskyi, Kremenchuk, Lviv, Truskavets, Zhmerynka, Mykolaiv

Suburban destinations

Suburban commuter trains (elektrichka) connect Kiyevsky station with stations and platforms of the Kiyevsky suburban direction of Moscow Railway, in particular, with the towns of Aprelevka, Naro-Fominsk (Nara), Balabanovo, Obninsk, Maloyaroslavets, and Kaluga.

Airport connections

Kiyevsky station is connected to Vnukovo International Airport by Aeroexpress trains, which are not operated by Russian Railways though they use the same tracks.

Gallery

• Kievsky Rail Terminal outside view.jpg

  Kievsky RailStation building from north-west

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  Shukhov's steel-and-glass roof of Kiyevsky station

• Kievsky Rail Terminal facade.jpg

  Eastern facade, lit at night

References

• Elizabeth Cooper English, “Arkhitektura i mnimosti”: The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition”, a dissertation in architecture, 264 p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
• Rainer Graefe, “Vladimir G. Suchov 1853-1939. Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion”, 192 S., Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1990, ISBN 3-421-02984-9.
• Fausto Giovannardi,"Vladimir G. Shukhov e la leggerezza dell’acciaio", Borgo San Lorenzo, 2007. (Italian)
• Е. М. Шухова, «Владимир Григорьевич Шухов. Первый инженер России.», 368 стр., МГТУ, Москва, 2003, ISBN 5-7038-2295-5.

External links

• Kiyevsky station Official site (Russian)
• Aeroexpress (English) (Russian)
• Russian Railways (Российские Железные Дороги) (English) (Russian)
• Ukrainian Railways (Українські залізниці) (Russian) (Ukrainian)
• Moldova Railways (Calea Ferată din Moldova) (English) (Romanian) (Russian)
• V. G. Shukhov