Zoloti vorota
Deep metro station styled as a medieval temple, with marble columns, bronze chandeliers and mosaics.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Zoloti Vorota metro station in Kyiv goes underground to the late nineteen-eighties, when a plain Soviet station design was thrown out and a father-and-son team of architects was handed a very short deadline. It follows the mosaicists Hryhoriy Korin and Volodymyr Fedko, who built their princes and mythical beasts up on the surface and carried them down. Listen on the platform, then keep the guide playing as you ride the escalator up.
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