Pochaina | |
Style: | Kyiv Metro |
Style2: | Obolonsko–Teremkivska |
Symbol: | m |
Symbol Location: | Kyiv |
Type: | Kyiv Metro station |
Address: | Obolonskyi District |
Borough: | Kyiv |
Country: | Ukraine |
Coordinates: | 50.4869°N 30.4978°W |
Other: | Trolleybus 25, 27, 29, 30, 31, 34Bus 21, 101 |
Structure: | underground |
Platform: | 1 |
Levels: | 1 |
Tracks: | 2 |
Opened: | 19 December 1980 |
Electrified: | Yes |
Code: | 213 |
Owned: | Kyiv Metro |
Pochaina (uk|Почайна, pronounced as /audio link/) is a station on Kyiv Metro's Obolonsko–Teremkivska line. The station was opened on 19 December 1980 in the Petrivka neighborhood of the Podilskyi Raion of Kyiv near Pochaina Railway Station.[1] It was designed by I.L. Maslenkov, T.A. Tselikovska, A.S. Krushynskyi, and F.M. Zaremba.
The station is located shallow underground and consists of a central hall with columns. The walls along the tracks have been covered with yellow marble and decorated with two abstract reliefs. Hanging above one of the entrances into the station's hall is a colorful mosaic. The station is accessible by passenger tunnels; the northern one leading to a square, the southern one — to Pochaina Railway Station.
On the 8 February 2018, Kyiv city council voted to rename Petrivka which commemorated communist politician Grigory Petrovsky to Pochaina after the Pochaina river (in which Prince Volodymyr baptized Kyiv citizens), according to the decommunization law.[2] [3]