Oleksandry Ekster (Kyiv Light Rail)

Oleksandry Ekster
Light Rail
General information
Coordinates50°31′25″N 30°36′31″E / 50.5237°N 30.6087°E / 50.5237; 30.6087
Owned byKyivpastrans
Line(s)Livoberezhna line
Platforms2 side platforms
History
OpenedMay 26, 2000[1]
RebuiltOctober 25, 2012[2]
Services
Preceding station Kyiv Light Rail Following station
Serzha Lyfaria
towards Raiduzhnyi
 Line 4 Myloslavska
Terminus
Line 5 Myloslavska
towards Serzha Lyfaria Street

Oleksandry Ekster (Ukrainian: Олександри Екстер; from 2000 to 2008, Tsvietaievoi; from 2008 to 2023, Maryny Tsvietaievoi) is a station on the Livoberezhna Line of the Kyiv Light Rail system in Ukraine. It was opened on May 26, 2000,[1] and reopened after a significant modernization of the line on October 26, 2012.[2]

Oleksandry Ekster is located between the Myloslavska and Serzha Lyfaria stations. Initially named in honour of Marina Tsvetaeva, a Russian poet, but it was renamed in 2023 in honour of Aleksandra Ekster, painter and designer of the Ukrainian avant-garde.

At one point the Kyiv City authorities proposed connecting the station with a prospective station of the Kyiv Metro's Livoberezhna Line, although that entire project was scrapped in favor of expanding the existing light rail system.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Tram lines: Fast tram No. 2". City Electrotransport — United tram and trolleybus site (in Russian). Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  2. ^ a b "The tram will run towards Troieschyna on Thursday". UNIAN (in Ukrainian). 19 October 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  3. ^ "Kyiv authorities have decided not to build a metro to Troieschyna". Ukrayinska Pravda (in Russian). 7 April 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.