Beautiful & Cheap & Humble & quick to build, and not so screwed up as SG.
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-18.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Recently in Kiev, there was an opening of the 50th metro station ‘Vystavochny Tsentr’ (and the 500th metro station in the former USSR). It took them less than a year to build it which is not typical of works of this type.<br />
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-8.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Currently, there are two entrances leading to the metro station.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-9.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>One of the entrances is equipped with an escalator.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-10.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>A passage.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-11.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Modern turnstiles and ticket offices.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-13.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>‘Vystavochny Tsentr’.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-12.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>It is very unusual to see a clock like this in the metro station. On the whole, the metro station has several non-typical design elements, like the columns near the ticket offices or new direction signs written in two languages, one of which is English.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-14.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>A platform.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-15.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-17.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>’50′ reminds the people of the anniversary status of the metro station.</p>
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<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-18.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Temporarily, passengers will board and get off the train from the same side of the platform.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-19.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>‘Running in’.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-20.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-21.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This is what the metro station looked like just some weeks ago.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-22.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-23.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Alarm system and block system equipment.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-24.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-11.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Vestibule construction of ‘Vistavochny Tsentr’ in summer.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-12.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>German driving shield ‘Herrenknecht’.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-13.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-14.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This is one of the tunnels it drove.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-15.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The rear of the shield.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-16.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The control panel.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-17.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The vestibule.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-18.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-19.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-25.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Some photographs of the tunnels of the new line.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-26.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-28.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-29.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-30.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-31.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-27.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This counterrail prevents the train from derailing.</p>
<p><img src="http://englishrussia.com/images/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-4.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>And this is one of the busiest construction sites in Kiev. Here they are building ‘Vasilkovskaya’ metro station. Several hundred people are working here all day long.</p>
<p>The first track is almost completed.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-5.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>They’ve installed new, up-to-date lighting.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-6.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The vent shaft will be located above the tunnel.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-7.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>That green light goes from mercury lamps.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-8.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-9.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Behind that door, there is an operational metro station.</p>
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<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-24.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-25.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-26.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-8.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This times we are in Moscow exploring ‘Kievskaya-Koltsevaya’ metro station.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-9.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This escalator opened in 1954.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-10.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>‘Kievskaya-Koltsevaya Metro Station’.</p>
<p>This sign has remained since the previous century and can be considered retro .</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-11.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>With this metro station, Nikita Khruschev wanted to immortalize the great history of the Ukrainian people.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-12.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This metro station is devoted to friendship between Russian and Ukrainian people.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-13.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-14.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>In 1972, they built several additional passages.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-15.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>‘Kievskaya-Koltsevaya Metro Station. Built in 1953′.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-16.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This architecture is typical of the Ukraine of the 17th century.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-17.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>‘Lenin’s ‘Iskra’ (spark).</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-18.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The metro station is especially rich in pictures of Stalin.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-19.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-20.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-21.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-22.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-23.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-24.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>A picture of Lenin and lyrics of the national anthem.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-25.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-26.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The Treaty of Pereyaslav, 1654.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-27.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Pushkin in Ukraine.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-28.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Lenins’ ‘Spark’ (newspaper).</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-29.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Lenin declares that Communism is the power of the Soviet Union, 1917.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-30.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Opening of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, 1932.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-31.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Liberation of Kiev by the Soviet Army, 1943.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-32.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>A competition between the metallurgists from the Urlas and Donbass.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-33.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Decorated with orders, flourishes Ukraine, the republic of workers and farmers.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-34.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The commonwealth of nations is a foundation for development of the Socialist Homeland.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-35.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Friendship between Ukrainian and Russian farmers.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-36.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Firing a salute to celebrate the victory, Moscow. May 9th, 1045.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-37.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>A tractor brigade.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-38.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Fighting for Communism in Ukraine.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-39.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Donbass, 1905.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-40.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, Nekrasov and Shevchenko in Saint Petersburg.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-41.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The Battle of Poltava, 1702.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-42.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Reunion of Ukrainian people in the USSR.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-43.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Celebrations in Kiev.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening2/vystavochnytsentropening2photos-18.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Recently in Kiev, there was an opening of the 50th metro station ‘Vystavochny Tsentr’ (and the 500th metro station in the former USSR). It took them less than a year to build it which is not typical of works of this type.<br />
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-8.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Currently, there are two entrances leading to the metro station.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-9.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>One of the entrances is equipped with an escalator.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-10.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>A passage.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-11.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Modern turnstiles and ticket offices.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-13.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>‘Vystavochny Tsentr’.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-12.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>It is very unusual to see a clock like this in the metro station. On the whole, the metro station has several non-typical design elements, like the columns near the ticket offices or new direction signs written in two languages, one of which is English.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-14.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>A platform.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-15.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-17.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>’50′ reminds the people of the anniversary status of the metro station.</p>
<p><a href="http://englishrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/0068018f.jpg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-85822" src="http://englishrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/0068018f.jpg" alt="" width="810" height="540" /></a></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-18.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Temporarily, passengers will board and get off the train from the same side of the platform.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-19.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>‘Running in’.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-20.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-21.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This is what the metro station looked like just some weeks ago.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-22.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-23.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Alarm system and block system equipment.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-24.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-11.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Vestibule construction of ‘Vistavochny Tsentr’ in summer.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-12.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>German driving shield ‘Herrenknecht’.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-13.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-14.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This is one of the tunnels it drove.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-15.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The rear of the shield.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-16.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The control panel.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-17.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>The vestibule.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-18.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-19.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-25.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Some photographs of the tunnels of the new line.</p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-26.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-28.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-29.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-30.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-31.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/vystavochnytsentropening/vystavochnytsentropeningphotos-27.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This counterrail prevents the train from derailing.</p>
<p><img src="http://englishrussia.com/images/112012/vystavochnytsentropening1/vystavochnytsentropening1photos-4.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>And this is one of the busiest construction sites in Kiev. Here they are building ‘Vasilkovskaya’ metro station. Several hundred people are working here all day long.</p>
<p>The first track is almost completed.</p>
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<p>They’ve installed new, up-to-date lighting.</p>
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<p>The vent shaft will be located above the tunnel.</p>
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<p>That green light goes from mercury lamps.</p>
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<p>Behind that door, there is an operational metro station.</p>
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<p>This times we are in Moscow exploring ‘Kievskaya-Koltsevaya’ metro station.</p>
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<p>This escalator opened in 1954.</p>
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<p>‘Kievskaya-Koltsevaya Metro Station’.</p>
<p>This sign has remained since the previous century and can be considered retro .</p>
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<p>With this metro station, Nikita Khruschev wanted to immortalize the great history of the Ukrainian people.</p>
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<p>This metro station is devoted to friendship between Russian and Ukrainian people.</p>
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<p>In 1972, they built several additional passages.</p>
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<p>‘Kievskaya-Koltsevaya Metro Station. Built in 1953′.</p>
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<p>This architecture is typical of the Ukraine of the 17th century.</p>
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<p>‘Lenin’s ‘Iskra’ (spark).</p>
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<p>The metro station is especially rich in pictures of Stalin.</p>
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<p>A picture of Lenin and lyrics of the national anthem.</p>
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<p>The Treaty of Pereyaslav, 1654.</p>
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<p>Pushkin in Ukraine.</p>
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<p>Lenins’ ‘Spark’ (newspaper).</p>
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<p>Lenin declares that Communism is the power of the Soviet Union, 1917.</p>
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<p>Opening of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, 1932.</p>
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<p>Liberation of Kiev by the Soviet Army, 1943.</p>
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<p>A competition between the metallurgists from the Urlas and Donbass.</p>
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<p>Decorated with orders, flourishes Ukraine, the republic of workers and farmers.</p>
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<p>The commonwealth of nations is a foundation for development of the Socialist Homeland.</p>
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<p>Friendship between Ukrainian and Russian farmers.</p>
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<p>Firing a salute to celebrate the victory, Moscow. May 9th, 1045.</p>
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<p>A tractor brigade.</p>
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<p>Fighting for Communism in Ukraine.</p>
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<p>Donbass, 1905.</p>
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<p>Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, Nekrasov and Shevchenko in Saint Petersburg.</p>
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<p>The Battle of Poltava, 1702.</p>
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<p>Reunion of Ukrainian people in the USSR.</p>
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<p>Celebrations in Kiev.</p>
