Melitopol railway station

Melitopol railway station (Ukrainian: Мелітополь) is a railway station in the Ukrainian city Melitopol of Zaporizhzhia Oblast currently under Russian occupation.

During the Russian civil war one of the buildings of the station was used as the headquarters of the commander of the Southern front Mikhail Frunze.

During the Eastern Front (World War II) in October 1943 the building was destroyed, and for the next 10 years, the duties of the station was performed by small kiosks, located on the site of the current trunk.

[3] The station platforms held monuments of Stalin and Lenin, the first was quickly removed however the second remained on the platform until the 1990s, and then was moved to Pryvokzalna Square and finally taken down 2015.

This station along with the entire city of Melitopol was captured and later annexed by Russia in 2022 during the invasion of Ukraine.