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The header image shows a Tatra T3 tram at Prospekt Metalurhiv station on the Kryvyi Rih Metro.
Image attribution: PhotoDocumentalist, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped work.
The Kryvyi Rih Metro system is part of the much bigger Kryvyi Rih tramway network in Ukraine.
This metro system is unusual because it utilises tramway rolling stock. The network is sometimes referred to as a metrotram system.
The underground section of the system has a track length of 7 km, and the total track length is 18.7 km.
The metro system relies on a turning circle at each end of the line.
Location of Kryvyi Rih and Metro Map
The associated location map is a derivative work. Original: US Central Intelligence Agency, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Associated metro map attribution: Andrew Kurbiko, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Bald and Bankrupt rides the Kryvyi Rih Metro
Watch a video by YouTube vlogger Benjamin Rich of Bald and Bankrupt, where he shares his experience with this metro system.
Bald and Bankrupt explores historical architecture in Kryvyi Rih
With the aid of a 1983 photo album of Kryvyi Rih, YouTube vlogger Bald and Bankrupt explores the city’s Soviet legacy.
Monuments, buildings and parks featured in the video
These are the places featured in the video, in the same order Bald and Bankrupt visited them.
Shevchenko Theatre
The theatre is named after the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko.
Image attribution: Ryzhkov Sergey, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Fyodor Mershavtsev Park
In 2016, the park was renamed Fyodor Mershavtsev Park.
Source: Alexander Vodolazsky at Wikimedia (in Ukrainian). (Go to the image entry for “Boat station in Kryvyi Rih”.
The original monument commemorating the park’s former name still stands.
Image attribution: Ryzhkov Sergey, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Boat Station in Fyodor Mershavtsev Park
Kryvyi Rih Regional Music College
The main post office in Krivyi Rih
Image attribution: Lyudmyla Larioshyna, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Former Children’s Theatre
The former children’s theatre used to be in an Aeroflot aeroplane. By the time Rich visited, a YAK-40 aeroplane had been installed in its place.
Image attribution: Bandanschik, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Kryvyi Rih Circus
Image attribution: Dogvillan, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Derivative work.
Stella Heroes monument
To continue his journey to the last featured destination, Rich uses the Kryvyi Rih Metro.
Image attribution: WDKeeper, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Derivative work.
The Kryvyi Rih metro depot near Maidan Pratsi station
We finish our journey (now without Bald and Bankrupt) by visiting Kryvyi Rih’s only metro depot, which is located near Maidan Pratsi station.
Image attribution: Serguei Bolachenko, CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons. Derivative work.
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