Opened in 1953, it is lavishly decorated in the quasi-baroque style that predominated in the early 1950s.

The square pylons are faced with white Ural marble and elaborately patterned ceramic tile and the plastered ceiling is decorated with a series of frescoes by various artists depicting life in Ukraine.

A large mosaic at the end of the platform commemorates the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Russia and Ukraine.

The architects were L. V. Lile, V. A. Litvinov, M. F. Markovsky, and V. M. Dobrokovsky.

For half a century Kiyevskaya was the terminus of the Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line; the 2003 extension to Park Pobedy ended that situation.