The Kyiv metro is the largest metro system in Ukraine (the other two are in Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk).

It is the easiest way to get around the city. Just buy the ticket (token) and you can get almost every way. There are plans for to open new lines in future as for now it looks like in this way:

Lines

1…. Sviatoshyns’ko – Brovars’ka (18 stations)
2…. Kurenivs’ko – Chervonoarmiis’ka liniia (12 stations)
3…. Syretsko – Pechers’ka liniia (17 Stations + 1 closed)

Interchanges

Teatral’na – Zoloti vorota
Khreschatyk – Maidan nezalezhnosti
Ploscha L’va Tolstoho – Palats sportu

Metro map

NEW! Tickets:

The price has changed one ticket doesn’t cost anymore 50 Kopecks but 1,75 Hryvnia.Tickets have the shape of plastic tokens used for turnstiles.

Attention!

The tickets which have been issued before the price changing can’t be used anymore!

You can buy them from the cashiers at the entrance of every station.

In many stations you can also find some automatic exchange machine which accept Hryvnia banknotes.

Further information

Kiev metro official site:
http://www.metro.kiev.ua/

Kiev metro on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev_Metro