Kiev is the capital of Ukraine, the heart of country and one of the most beautiful and impressive modern cities. You will be impressed with its beauty. Ancient buildings, churches, cathedras and little streets will be mixed with modern malls and world known boutiques…

The city of Kiev has a big variety of public transport: cars, taxes, buses, trams, trolleybuses, and the most popular and used, famous subway of Kyiv. The subway has three lines, two of which cross the Dnieper River through the high bridge. The payment of the travel is done with "zeton" (plastic blue coin), that can be bought in boxes of the metro stations.

The city of Kiev has a complementary network of trolleybuses and trams. A peculiarity that can surprise foreign visitors is that the travel money is passed from hand to hand, from passenger to passenger until it comes to the driver or to the collector.

In Kiev there are is a great variety of little local buses (passenger vans) called "marshrutka". They go in all directions and you can easily catch them and go to any place in Kiev. This transport is very cheap and popular but you must be prepared for crowds.

For more comfortable travel in Kiev city it is better to use taxi service. Our advice is not to catch a taxi on the strip but to call the taxi service office and ask for a car. In this way it will be cheaper. There are hundreds of taxi services and the taxi won’t be a problem for you. But if you catch taxi on the street, be ready for the oral agreement about the price! We will give you some phone numbers of taxi services in Kiev.

Taxis

• Absolyut –Taxi 455-95-95
• Avtotrans 451-00-21, 423-45-40
• Allo- Taxi 237-75-75, 455-95-50
• Alfa – Taxi 067-233-63-65, 227-71-11
• Bars – Taxi 531-45-31, 237-21-00
• Blyuz – Taxi 201-03-30, 529-30-00
• Bolivar Taxi 050-387-86-09
• Euro Taxi 249- 40-40, 236-10-36
• Limousine 814-14-50, 207-37-37, 502-08-08.

Metro

It is the main and widely used public transport in Kiev. It was the first subway in Ukraine and the third one built in the Soviet Union, after Moscow and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). The Kiev metro moves 1.38 million passengers per day, representing the 42.5% of the 3.25 million people using the system of public transport in the city on a daily basis. In 2010 the total number of travel exceeded the 504 million

The metro lines are the following:

• 1 Svyatoshynsko-Brovarska (red line)
• 2 Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiyska (blue line)
• 3 Syretsko-Pechersk (green line)
• 4 Podilsko –Voskresenska (yellow line)
• 5 Livoberezhna (blue line)

Trams

Trams are also popular in Kiev; they were the first electric trams of the Old Russian Empire, and the third ones in Europe after the Berlin “Straßenbahn” and the Budapest tramway. The system has 139,9 km of Rails, including 14 kilometers of two fast lines. The length of the tracks is decreasing at a fast pace, and they are being replaced by modern buses and trolleybuses. (Trams to January 1, 2008). We are giving you the list of them:

• 1-k. Station Pobedy Square- Mikhaylovskaya Borshakova
• 2. Station Batutina - Av. Aleksandra Saburova
• 5. Square Kontraktovaya-Bul. Druzhbi Narodov
• 7. 14th Linia-SquareTarasa Shevchenko
• 8. Metro station Lesnaya- metro station Poznyaki
• 11. AV Layosha Gavro - Kontraktovaya square subway station
• 11-k. Av Layosha Gavro-Av Semyona Sklyarenko
• 12. 14th Linia - Kontraktova square
• 14. Avtogennyi Zavod- Kontraktova Square
• 15. AV. Starovokzalnaya-Avtogenny Zavod
• 18. AV. Kontraktova Starovokzalnaya-Square
• 19. Kontraktova square Tarasa Shevchenko square
• 22. Bulevard Alekseya Perova ZZhBK
• 23. DBRZ-Prospet Alishera Navoi
• 25. Jarkovskiy Massiv – ZzhBK
• 28. AV Miloslavskaya- metro station Lesnaya
• 29. Krasniy Khutor- metro station Lesnaya
• 32. DVRZ-metro station Lesnaya
• 33. AV Nikolaya Kibalchicha-DVRZ
• 35. AV Alesandra Saburova- metro station Lesnaya

Fast trams

It consists of two lines which were opened in 1978, with an extension of 14 kilometers.

• 1st line Av Starovakzalnaya-Koltsevaya Daroga
• 2nd line Vatutina-Miloslavskaya.

Railway Station

Train is the most important transport between cities. The city has a great developed railway infrastructure, including a long-distance passenger trains, 6 stations of cargo, warehouses and repair shops. However, the system has difficulties in its modernization, like the bridges across the river, which are only equipped for a single track, thereby limiting its expansion. That is why the construction of a modern railway station has been planned in the left margin of the Dnieper River, and the construction of bridges is already advanced. But even with these problems, travelling by train is one of the most widely used in Ukraine. It is a good way to travel between Ukrainian cities and neighborhood countries. Ukrainian trains connect all the main cities. There are also international trains from key Ukrainian cities to Moscow, St Petersburg, Riga, Minsk, Tallinn, Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, and Krakow.

• Central railway station
• Darnytsia railway station (under construction, on the other side of the Dnieper River)

Suburban electric trains

Electric commuter trains are also known as "elektrichkas" or electric trains. Despite being fast and relatively safe, they are not well maintained. There are five lines:

• Nizhyn (Northeast)
• Hrebinka (Southeast)
• Myronivka (Southern)
• Fastiv (Southwest)
• Korosten (Western)

Funicular

The Kiev funicular (in Ukrainian: Київський фунікулер, transliteration: Kyivs'kyi funikuler; in Russian: Киевский фуникулёр, translit.: Kievskiy funikulior) is developed in Kiev since its construction in 1958, and connects the historic center with the commercial district of the Podilskyi district, along the shore of the Dnieper River.

Trolleybuses

• 1 Station Metro “Lybidska” – Street Marshalska.
• 1-К Station Metro “Lybidska” – Street P. Grabovskogo.
• 2 Station Metro “Lybidska” – Cibcenter.
• 3 Station Metro “Palace of Sport” – Zaliznodorozhniy Masyv.
• 4 Station Metro “Lybidska” – Street Yuria Smolycha
• 5 Street Belitska – Street Tereshchenkivska.
• 6 Station Metro “Luk’yanivska” – Street Soshenko.
• 7 Station Metro “Shulyavska” – Street Decommissioned.
• 7-К Station Metro “Nyvky” – Street Decommissioned.
• 8 Square of Lva Tolstogo – Street Smilyanska.
• 9 Airport “Kiev” – Railway Station.
• 10 Street Myloslavska – Poliklinica (Polyclinic)
• 11 Station Metro “Lybidska” – the Museum of Archeology and way of life of the Ukrainian people.
• 12 Street Yuria Smolycha – Street Georgiya Dymytrova.
• 14 Railway Station - Botanic Garden.
• 16 Street Academica Shchuseva – Independant Square.
• 17 Square Kosmonavtiv – Street Tereshchenkivska.
• 18 Street Soshenko – Independent Square.
• 19 Street Olzhycha – Square Kosmonavtiv.
• 21 Street Kadetskyi Gayi – Streeet Degtyarivska.
• 22 “Kiev Airport” – Street Olzhycha
• 23 Street Academica Tupoleva - Luk’yanivska Square.