Serzha Lyfaria (Kyiv Light Rail)

Serzha Lyfaria
Light Rail
General information
Coordinates50°31′00″N 30°36′16″E / 50.51667°N 30.60444°E / 50.51667; 30.60444
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
Ronalda Reihana
towards Raiduzhnyi
 Line 4 Oleksandry Ekster
towards Myloslavska
Line 5 Oleksandry Ekster
towards Serzha Lyfaria Street

Serzha Lyfaria (Ukrainian: Сержа Лифаря; from 2000 to 2008, Saburova, from 2008 to 2019, Oleksandra Saburova) is a station on the Livoberezhna Line of the Kyiv Light Rail system. It was opened on May 26, 2000[1] and reopened after a significant modernization of the line on October 26, 2012.[2]

Serzha Lyfaria is located in between the Oleksandry Ekster and Ronalda Reihana stations. Initially named in honor of Alexander Saburov, a Soviet partisan, it was renamed in 2019 in honor of Serge Lifar, a French ballet dancer and choreographer of Ukrainian origin.

At one point the Kyiv City authorities proposed creating the Vulytsia Saburova station [uk] 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.