Metrohrad Shopping Mall

The Metrohrad (Ukrainian: Метроград) is an extensive underground shopping mall at Bessarabska Square, Kyiv, Ukraine.

[1] It is also being used as an underpass and has exits to Lva Tolstoho metro station, Velyka Vasylkivska Street, Tarasa Shevchenka Boulevard, Bessarabsky Market and Baseina Street The mall is divided on seven quarters by function: Metrohrad Shopping Mall was built in one year in 2001,[2] soon after the reconstruction of Khreshchatyk.

Nearby there was a construction of the similar shopping mall called Globus at Maidan Nezalezhnosti.

Allegedly both of the project were approved to disrupt the anti-government protests in the center of Kyiv.

In 2017, the mall had undergone the reconstruction of several quarters, some exits were closed during the work making it harder to pass the street as there were no options other than the underpass.