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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Completed in the 1960s when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, it includes stations built deep underground, designed to double as bomb shelters in the event of an enemy attack. Kyiv's Arsenalna station is considered to be the deepest in the world, located 346 ft (105.5 m) below ground.
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.
THE world's deepest metro, underground station is the Arsenalna Station on the Kiev Metro in Ukraine, at 107 meters deep. The world's largest metro station is Union Square Station on the Dubai Metro in the United Arab Emirates which covers an area of 67,056 square meters.
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.
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.
Moscow metro construction started in 1930-s. At that time geological surveys were conducted and it appeared that the nature of the soil would make tunneling particularly difficult in Moscow. Many underground rivers were discovered. It was safer to dig tunnels deep under the ground level.
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.
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.
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.
Thus, the underground was extended to 14 stations and a length of 18.2 km (11.3 mi). On 23 August 1972, the billionth passenger of the Kyiv underground entered the Arsenalna station.
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.