Both the station and the square are shortened by locals to diminutive names such as Ípák, Pavlák or Ípáč.

[2] I. P. Pavlova is the busiest station on the Prague Metro, serving daily more than 118,000 people as of 2008.

[9] Part of the Czech sci-fi movie, Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea,[10] was filmed in the vestibule of the metro station.

[11] Above the escalators there is a large-format illustration created in 2011, depicting passengers in the subway as anthropomorphic dogs.

A figure in the foreground is holding a hamburger and a copy of Pavlov's book, The Experimental Psychology and Psychopathology of Animals.