Kyiv Urban Electric Train
The Kyiv Urban Electric Train, officially the Kyiv City Express, is Kyiv’s circular urban rail service. It runs on a long-standing ring railway around the city, using the same trains and crews as the regular commuter trains. The line is a single ring with 15 stations and stretches about 50.8 km. It began operation on September 2, 2009, and the full ring was completed on October 4, 2011. Since 2022, the service has been operated by Ukrainian Railways.
Trains run from about 5:48 to 21:37, with headways of 10 to 30 minutes. The fastest loop takes around 1 hour and 25 minutes. There are 12 trains on the line, and a ticket costs 15 hryvnias.
In 2022, service was suspended after the Russian invasion and later resumed. On March 21, 2022, service ran from Darnytsia to Sviatoshyn, and by March 27 the full loop, including new stations Mykilska Slobidka, Kyiv-Demiivskyi, Protasiv Yar, and Rusanivka, was back in operation.
The line is meant to connect with Kyiv Metro and other major routes, with all stops serving as multimodal transfer hubs. The trains start and end at the Darnytsia terminus, forming a circle via Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi (Kyiv Passenger), though some runs begin or end at Kyiv-Volynskyi. The service is commonly called electrychka (electric train) in everyday speech, and while some have used the term kil’etseve metro, it is not official. All infrastructure is the existing Kyiv rail network shared with Ukrzaliznytsia.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 20:48 (CET).