Vyrlytsia (Kiev Metro)

Vyrlytsia
Kiev Metro station
Coordinates	50°24′12″N 30°39′58″E / 50.40333°N 30.66611°E / 50.40333; 30.66611Coordinates: 50°24′12″N 30°39′58″E / 50.40333°N 30.66611°E / 50.40333; 30.66611
Owned by	Kiev Metro
Line(s)	Syretsko-Pecherska Line
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	underground
Platform levels	1
Other information
Station code	325
History
Opened	2006-03-07
Electrified	Yes
Services
Preceding station   Kiev Metro   Following station Kharkivska toward Syrets Syretsko-Pecherska Line Boryspilska toward Chervony Khutir

Vyrlytsia (Ukrainian: Вирлиця) is a station on the Kiev Metro's Syretsko-Pecherska Line. It was opened on March 4, 2006 on the already functioning stretch, Kharkivska-Boryspilska.

The station is by far the most unusual in the system. Its design is a shallow level curved side-platform pillar bi-span. In the original designs the station was not planned, and the long stretch Kharkivska-Boryspilska was already under construction, when in late 2003, the City urban planning committee decided to invest and develop the empty area roughly halfway between the two stations with new housing massifs. As a result, a need for a Metro station arose. In fact the only other station in the former USSR to exhibit the same layout is Alexandrovsky Sad on the Moscow Metro whose design was too attributed to the same reasoning.

As the station had to be built into the existing tunnel path, it was deemed too expensive and impractical to alter the path of the tunnels. This resulted in the track construction continuing as planned, while a station pit was built around them. As a result, Vyrlytsia opened half a year after Boryspilska. The curvature of the platform is a merit to this. The other visible sign is the central pillar span that separates the paths. Like in the rest of the stretch this was to house pipes and tubes with communication cables, again for reasons of cost-saving, these were left and instead coated with metallic planes, which were also used for the ceiling of the station.

It believes and disbelieves:
Where reeds have ripened now,
The doors of "Vyrlytsia" opened,
As sung out of the soul.
Here, the will of metro-builders
Is set in the concrete.
For they believed - plans will come true-
And such is the Metro law!!!

Also, unlike other shallow stations in Kiev, Vyrlytsia's vestibule is not at the far ends of the platform but in its centre with staircases leading to large underground vestibule which has glazed pavilions on the surface, that are located on both sides of the Mykola Bazhan avenue. As with all new stations in Kiev, disabled access is not overlooked and the station features four lifts to the surface.

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