Khreshchatyk (Kyiv Metro)

Khreshchatyk (Ukrainian: Хрещатик, pronunciationⓘ) is a station on the Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line of the Kyiv Metro.

In 1976, the station became the first transfer point in the system to the newly opened Obolonsko–Teremkivska Line's (then named Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska Line[2]) Maidan Nezalezhnosti (then called Ploshcha Kalinina but soon renamed to Ploshcha Zhovtnevoi Revolyutsii).

The original corridor, however, proved to be too short and unable to cope with rising passenger traffics and in 1986 a second, longer corridor connected the opposite sides of the stations allowing traffic to be diverted.

The station has two vestibules, the first one is built into a restaurant building (now occupied by a shop) on Khreshchatyk Street.

The second one was opened in 1963 (replacing a large coat of arms of the Ukrainian SSR) and is located on the corner of Instituska and Horodetska streets.