Oleksandry Ekster (Kyiv Light Rail)

Oleksandry Ekster (Ukrainian: Марини Цвєтаєвої; from 2000 to 2008, Tsvetaievoi; from 2008 to 2023, Maryny Tsvetaievoi) 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]

Oleksandry Ekster
Light Rail
General information
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 Troieschyna-2
 Line 4 Myloslavska
Terminus
Line 5 Myloslavska
towards Serzha Lyfaria Street

Maryny Tsvetaievoi is located in 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 Maryny Tsvetaievoi station with a perspective 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. "Tram lines: Fast tram No. 2". City Electrotransport — United tram and trolleybus site (in Russian). Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  2. "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.
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