How deep are Kiev metro stations?

Built at the height of the Cold War, most Kyiv Metro stations double as bomb shelters. The Arsenalna station, reached via an escalator ride that takes five minutes, was constructed at depths of up to 346 feet (105 meters) — the deepest subway platform in the world.



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Arsenalna Metro Station is technically still higher than the river, but lies nearly 350 feet (105.5 meters) beneath the city, making it the deepest station in the world.

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The depth is attributed to the geography of Kyiv, whose high bank of the Dnieper River rises above the rest of the city. Also unusual is the station's design, which lacks a central concourse and thus is similar in layout to stations of the London Underground.

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THE world's deepest metro, underground station is the Arsenalna Station on the Kiev Metro in Ukraine, at 107 meters deep.

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It is the third metro system in the world (after Madrid and Beijing), which has two ring lines. The system is mostly underground, with the deepest section 84 metres (276 ft) underground at the Park Pobedy station, one of the world's deepest underground stations.

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Abbesses is the deepest station in the Paris Métro, at 36 metres (118 feet) below ground, and is located on the western side of the butte (hill) of Montmartre.

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It is located in Kharkiv's city center, beneath the intersection of the Petrovskoho and Pushkinska streets, for which the station is named. The Pushkinska station lies more than 30 metres (98 ft) underground which makes it the deepest station of the Kharkiv Metro system.

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At the time of construction the communists were worried that Prague might be targeted by the West as a great place to drop a nuclear bomb. So they created the metro deep underground to doubly serve as a nuclear bomb shelter.

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The finale was held at the Kyiv metro station Maidan Nezalezhnosti, which is located at a depth of about 75 meters under the capital's main square and near Khreshchatyk Street, the central street of Kyiv.

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The first and oldest extant underground station is Baker Street tube station which opened in 1863. The largest and most complex metro station is the Paris Métro-RER station Châtelet-Les Halles in France, with 20 platforms serving eight (three RER commuter rail and five Métro) lines.

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THE world's deepest metro system is the Pyongyang Metro in North Korea which is 110 meters deep. The tunnel was built as part of an underground military facility. THE world's deepest metro, underground station is the Arsenalna Station on the Kiev Metro in Ukraine, at 107 meters deep.

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THE world's first metro, now the world's oldest system, is the London Underground in England, which is more commonly known as the Tube, which was opened in 1863. At 402 kilometers in length the London Underground is also the world's second longest metro system.

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The Moscow city limits are already comparable. Paris's city limits are 105.4 km2, while London's are 1,572 km2. The Moscow city limits are almost twice the size of London's city limits and twenty-five times larger than Paris's.

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The standard Moscow metro reached Vnukovo airport only in 2020, while the secret Metro 2 was built much earlier. This secret underground network of bunkers in the Ramenki area, connected via secret metro line, were built in the 1950s and 1960s. Construction was reportedly completed in the late 1960s.

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