Kyiv’s Central Bus restoration project shows modernization and preservation can coexist

INFBusiness
27.06.2021
Lifestyle

An InWhite employee cleans the mosaics at the Kyiv Central Bus Station at 1 Nauky Ave on June 15. These murals and patterns were originally designed by Soviet artists Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnychenko in the 1960s and have recently been cleaned and restored to their former glory by restoration experts and hundreds of volunteers.

Bright white floors, large windows and thousands of carefully placed mosaic panels greet visitors walking into Kyiv’s Central Bus Station on 1 Nauky Avenue.

Twenty-six columns support the station, covered with small green pieces depicting buses, cars and the outdoors. Two large murals on the third floor illustrate Moscow and Kyiv, both major centers of the Soviet Union, where the artwork was made 60 years ago.