How to get from Kievsky railway station to Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Vnukovo airports
To Sheremetyevo Airport
There is no direct connection between Kievsky railway station and Sheremetyevo airport. Passengers will travel by metro and Aeroexpress or by metro and bus (minibus):
- Metro + Aeroexpress Take the Circle Line metro to the Belorusskaya station.
- After exiting the station, follow the signs “Exit to Belorussky Station”
- Take the Aeroexpress to Sheremetyevo Airport
- This is the most expensive option, since an Aeroexpress ticket costs from 300 rubles (June 2021), but the most reliable because it allows you to avoid traffic jams.
- This option is convenient if your flight departs from terminals D, E or F. But it is inconvenient if your flight departs from terminals B and C, which are located on the opposite side of the airport. To get to them you will need to make another transfer - to the free metro, which connects the two parts of the airport.
- Take the Circle Line metro to Krasnopresnenskaya station.
- Take the Circle Line of the metro to the Belorusskaya station.
To Domodedovo airport
- by electric train or Aeroexpress departing to Domodedovo airport from Paveletsky station - Paveletskaya metro station. Travel time will be 1 hour 10 minutes by electric train and 40–50 minutes by Aeroexpress
- take the metro to Domodedovo station, then take bus No. 405 or a minibus. Travel time will be approximately 30 minutes
To Vnukovo airport
- on the Aeroexpress departing to Vnukovo airport from the Kievsky railway station - Kyiv metro station. Travel time will be 35 minutes
- take the metro to Yugo-Zapadnaya station, then take bus No. 611 or 611C - express, travel time will be 35–40 minutes or by minibus No. 45, travel time will be about 20 minutes
- take the metro to Oktyabrskaya Koltsevaya station, then take minibus No. 705m. Travel time will be approximately 40 minutes.
If you travel by ground transport, take into account the time it takes to overcome possible traffic jams.
Nearest ground transport stops
Metro Tretyakovskaya (Bolshaya Ordynka): Bus No. M5 (Metro Lubyanka - Polytechnic Museum → Nagorny Boulevard)
Metro Novokuznetskaya (Pyatnitskaya street): Bus No. M5 (Nagorny Boulevard → Metro Lubyanka - Polytechnic Museum)
Bolshaya Yakimanka (Bolshaya Polyanka St.): Bus No. M6 (Metro Nagatinskaya → 2nd Silikatny Proezd) Bus No. K (Paveletsky Station → Paveletsky Station) Trolleybus No. 8 (Moskvoretsky Market → Udarnik Cinema)
Bolshaya Yakimanka (Yakimansky proezd): Bus M1 (Kravchenko 2 → Hospital MPS) Bus N1 (night) (Ozernaya → Sheremetyevo Airport - terminal F (arrival floor)) Bus No. 144 (Metro Teply Stan → Metro Kitay-Gorod 10D) Trolleybus No. M4 (Ozernaya → Cinema Udarnik) Trolleybus No. T7 (Metro Park Pobedy → Cinema Udarnik) Trolleybus No. 4 (Lebedeva (Lomonosovsky Prospekt) → Cinema Udarnik)
Metro Tretyakovskaya (Sadovnichesky proezd): Bus No. 3n (Akademika Yangelya → Metro Chistye Prudy) Tram No. A (Metro Oktyabrskaya → Metro Chistye Prudy) Tram No. 3 (Balaklavsky Prospekt (Simferopol Boulevard) → Metro Chistye Prudy) Tram No. 3n (Akademika Yangelya → Metro Chistye Prudy) Tram No. 39 (Metro University → Metro Chistye Prudy)
How to get from Kievsky station to other Moscow stations
- Kazan, Leningrad and Yaroslavl
From Kyiv Koltsevaya metro station, go 4 stops to Komsomolskaya station. Travel time will be 13 minutes. Also take into account the time required to get to the Kazansky railway station through a long underground passage.
- Belorussian
From the Kyiv Koltsevaya metro station, go 2 stops to the Belorusskaya station. Travel time will be 4 minutes
- Kursk
From Kyiv Koltsevaya metro station, go 6 stops to Kurskaya station. Travel time will be 14 minutes
- Paveletsky
From Kyiv Koltsevaya metro station, go 4 stops to Paveletskaya station. Travel time will be 9 minutes
- Rizhsky
From the Kyiv Koltsevaya metro station, go 4 stops to the Prospekt Mira metro station, go to the Kuluzhsko-Rizhskaya line and go 1 stop to the Rizhskaya station. Travel time will be 15 minutes
- Savelovsky
From the Kyiv Koltsevaya metro station, go 3 stops to the Novoslobodskaya metro station, go to the Mendeleevskaya station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line and go 1 stop to the Savelovskaya station. Travel time will be 12 minutes.
Station design
The metro station at Kursky Station differs from all other Moscow ones not only in its appearance, but also in its architectural style. Indeed, leading specialist Polyakov, together with experienced engineers Komarov and Kibardin, at one time created its special design - a deep three-vaulted pylon.
To this day, light gray marble clads the station’s pylons. The track walls are framed on top by white glazed ceramic tiles, and on the bottom by black marble. Beautiful lamps are mounted on round ventilation holes, covered with gilded grilles. The vault of the main hall is illuminated by several huge chandeliers that resemble small suns.
Services at Kievsky railway station
- Sale of travel documents and delivery to your home and organization. Cash desks are open 24 hours a day
- Waiting rooms, including superior ones
- Mother and baby room and baby changing area
- Accommodation in rest rooms. The mini hotel can accommodate from two to five people, and there is also a luxury room. Rooms can be booked one day or 12 hours in advance
- Luggage storage and lost items storage
- Porter services within the station and beyond
- Information and reference services and public address announcements
- Paid entry into the territory of a car or minibus
- Photocopying and laminating services, e-mail and computer work, fax reception and transmission
- There is a service center where you can use an iron and ironing board.
- Pharmacy and medical center
- Postal and communication services, ATM
- Showers and toilets
- 24-hour operation of bars and canteens, cafes and buffets
- Souvenir kiosks and kiosks with essential goods
- Selling flowers
- Services for persons with disabilities. Platforms 1, 2 and 3, 9 and 10 are equipped with ramps, as well as the tunnel leading to platforms No. 1–6, 9 and 10. There are ramps on the flight of stairs from Kievskaya Street, along which you can get to the ticket offices of long-distance and suburban traffic and to platforms No. 1, 4 and 5 of commuter trains. The medical center is equipped with wheelchairs
- On the station square there is a shopping and entertainment area, in which there is a food court, shops and a supermarket, exchange offices and ATMs, travel agencies and pharmacies, an ice skating rink and a cinema.
- Next to the station complex on Europe Square there is a restaurant of the fast food chain "Mu-Mu", and on Dorogomilovskaya Street opposite the shopping center "European" there is a McDonald's.
Old and new Arbat on the map of Moscow
The Old (as well as the New) Arbat is located in the center of Moscow, in the Central Administrative District, in the district of the capital of the same name. This street starts from Arbat Gate Square, has a length of about 1200 meters and ends at Smolenskaya Square. Old Arbat is located between Prechistenka and New Arbat streets.
New Arbat, in turn, also starts from the Arbat Gate, departs from it at an angle to Old Arbat and after one and a half kilometers ends at Free Russia Square.
From the history of Kievsky Station
At the end of the 19th century, the Kiev-Voronezh Railway Society decided to build a railway from Bryansk to Moscow. Simultaneously with the construction of the road in 1897–1899, in a vacant lot on the outskirts of the capital, in the Dorogomilovskaya Sloboda area, a huge construction project began to build a railway station, and by mid-1899 it was built. On June 29, the station premises were consecrated and on August 1, the first postal and passenger train departed by rail. The station building was elongated with 2 provincial-looking entrances and had a dull appearance, often subject to caricature, and the company that created such a “log house that decorated Moscow” was often criticized. And although the one-story building had a temporary appearance, it stood for more than 10 years, until 1912, when the Board of the Moscow-Kiev-Voronezh Railway decided to build a large station complex.
Construction began with the bridge when, instead of the narrow old crossing of 1868, a new Borodino Bridge was built, the design of which was carried out by the architect Roman Klein with the participation of engineers Nikolai Oskolkov and Mikhail Shchekotov.
The design of the Kievsky station building was developed by architects Ivan Rerberg and Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky, and the landing stage and platform hall ceilings were developed by Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov. Construction began in 1914 and ended after the revolution - the first train departed from the new station on February 14, 1918. Most buildings at the beginning of the 20th century were built in the Art Nouveau style, and the new building was different from the rest - it embodied the continuity of antiquity and the new era.
The platform hall is a landing stage adjacent to the station building and has a length of 321 m, a width of 47 m and a height of 30 m. Glazed arched ceilings are installed above its platforms. The area of the central waiting room is 900 sq.m. The decoration of its walls follows the style of the facades. The painting was done by artists Ignatiy Nivinsky and Fyodor Rerberg, and the sculptural compositions were done by Sergei Aleshin. The paintings and sculptures emphasized the connection with the Patriotic War of 1812 - at that time Russian and French troops crossed the Borodino Bridge. There is a mechanical clock on the tower of the station building.
In 1935, in accordance with the General Plan of the capital, the station square was expanded to Dorogomilovskaya Street and the station complex harmoniously fit into the architectural ensemble of the Moscow River and Borodinsky Bridge.
In 1937, the Kyiv metro station on the Filevskaya line was opened, and after the war in 1945, a building with commuter ticket offices and a metro station lobby was built on the north side. In 1953, the Kyiv station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line opened, and the following 1954 - a station on the Circle Line of the metro.
In 1976, new premises for storage rooms appeared, in 1981 restoration work took place, during which the interior decoration of the building was updated and the roof of the platform hall was reconstructed. In 2003–2004, 27 riveted steel floor arches were replaced with welded ones.
Since 2004, the Sapsan high-speed train has connected the station complex with Vnukovo Airport. After checking in and checking in your luggage, you can get to the airport in just 25 minutes.
Interesting Facts
- Among all the clocks in the capital, only two clocks are mechanical, the hands of which must be moved manually. These are the clock on the tower of the Kievsky railway station and the clock on the Spasskaya tower of the Kremlin. The clock on the tower of the Kievsky station is located at a height of 55 meters and weighs more than a ton, the length of the minute hand is 1.7 meters. The clock mechanism is over 100 years old and the watchmaker handles it carefully, all moving mechanisms are checked and lubricated. The speed of the mechanism is affected by heat and cold and therefore it is necessary to monitor the accuracy of time. The watch is wound using three hundred kilogram cast iron weights
- Near the Kievsky railway station, the filming of the film “Left Work” took place, in which Pavel Maykov starred as the main character Gosha. A professional stuntman was invited to film a dangerous jump from a bridge onto a moving train, and Pavel Maikov had to run along the roof of the carriage and jump from one carriage to another
- In March 2011, as part of the prestigious Golden Mask theater award, an unusual large-scale musical performance, “Railway Opera,” organized by Russian and Polish creative groups, took place on the platform and in the halls of the Kievsky Station. Those who signed up in advance were given headphones so they could hear the opera, and everyone could see the performance. This opera is about railway sadness, when you haven’t left yet, but you are no longer here, about waiting for some events. According to director and actor Alexei Zherebtsov, “this is, first of all, an understanding of what a road is, what a station is in our life”
- In December 2010, New Year's performances for orphans and large families were held at the Kievsky railway station. A stage and decorations were installed on the platform, and inside the waiting room, everyone could take a ride on the children's railway in a small train.
Kyiv railway station in Moscow is one of the busiest in the capital. Every month it serves more than 600 thousand passengers on long-distance trains and 1.5 million people on commuter trains.
