University

Universytet is a station on the Kharkiv Metro's Saltivska Line. The station was opened on 10 August 1984 and is located beneath the Maidan Svobody, at the time, the largest square in Europe and the second largest in the world after Tiananmen Square, in the centre of Kharkiv.

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Type: Metro station
Description: metro station in Kharkiv, Ukraine
Also known as: “Universytet”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Derzhprom and Kharkiv State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Mykola Lysenko.

Derzhprom

Metro station

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Derzhprom is a station on the Kharkiv Metro's Oleksiivska Line. The station opened on 6 May 1995. It is named after Derzhprom, a constructivist building on Freedom Square. Derzhprom is situated 160 metres west of University.

Kharkiv State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Mykola Lysenko

Theater building

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The Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Mykola Lysenko is a theater in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The postmodern theater building was built in 1991 and features tufa tiles. Kharkiv State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Mykola Lysenko is situated 600 metres south of University.

State Museum of Nature of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Museum

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State Museum of Nature of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University is situated 430 metres north of University.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Derzhprom and Kharkiv.

Derzhprom

Suburb

Photo: Anna Leonenko, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Derzhprom or Gosprom building is an office building located on Freedom Square in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Built in the Constructivist style, it was the first modern skyscraper building in the Soviet Union upon its completion in 1928.

Kharkiv

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Kharkiv is a major city in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine and is the second largest city in Ukraine with a population of over 1.5 million inhabitants. The city is in the northeast of the Ukraine.