Arsenalna
Metro station dug into a steep riverbank, among the deepest on Earth, reached by two long escalators.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Arsenalna station in Kyiv starts with a puzzle about depth: how one of the deepest metro stations on Earth can sit a single stop from a platform in open daylight. It follows the Soviet engineers of the late nineteen-fifties into waterlogged ground on the high bank of the Dnipro. Listen on the platform, among the marble-faced pylons, before riding back up.
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