Small Ring Road, Kyiv


The Small Ring Road is a motorway in Kyiv, a ring road that runs through the city, mostly within the city limits. The Small Ring Road has a total length of 38.9 kilometres, and consists of several administratively separate roads and squares, and two bridges across the Dnipro: the Pivnichnyi Bridge and the Paton Bridge.
It is distinguished from the, which is a larger, unfinished ring road currently under construction. The Great Ring Road has a projected length of 214 kilometres, that is mostly located outside the city limits of Kyiv, and only on the right bank of the Dnipro.

History of construction

Construction of the Small Ring Road began in the 1950s with Vadym Hetman Street, part of which was originally called Okruzhna Street, and Oleksandr Dovzhenko Street, which was originally called Novookruzhna. Construction was completed in 1990.

Route of the Small Ring Road

Streets, prospekts, boulevards and bridges

Clockwise, starting from the Shulyavsky Overpass:
  • , built in the 1950s;
  • , built in the 1950s;
  • , built in 1976;
  • Pivnichnyi Bridge or Northern Bridge, opened in 1976;
  • , built in the 1970s;
  • , partially laid in the 1960s, completed and reconstructed in the late 1980s;
  • , built in the 1950s;
  • , built in the 1950s;
  • , built in the 1950s, received its current name in 2016 in honour of Unity of Ukraine Day;
  • Paton Bridge, opened in 1953;
  • , built in the 1950s;
  • , built in the 1950s and 2000s;
  • , built in the 1950s;
  • , built in the 1950s.

Squares

The Small Ring Road passes through the following squares:
  • is the intersection of Prospekt Stepan Bandera and Prospekt Obolonsky.
  • is the intersection of the prospekts Romana Shukhevycha, Chervona Kalyna, and Voskresensky.
  • is the intersection of Hnata Khotkevycha Street, Bratyslavska Street, and Brovarskyi prospect.
  •   is the intersection of the prospekts Sobornosti, Leonid Kadenyuk, and Myra; and the streets of Budivelnyk, Sosyura, Prazskaya, and Kharkiv.
  • is the intersection of Staronavodnytska and Lavrska streets, and Mykola Mikhnovsky Boulevard.
  • Demiivska Square is the intersection of the prospekts Holosiivskyi, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, and Nauka, and Mykola Mikhnovskyi Boulevard.
  • is the intersection of Chokolivskyi Boulevard, the prospekts Povitroflotskyi and Valeriy Lobanovskyi, and Svyatoslav Khorobryho Street.
  • is the intersection of Chokolivskyi Boulevard and Antonov Aviation Designer Street.

Mainline characteristics

The narrowest point of the Small Ring Road of Kyiv is the overpass above the Chernihivska metro station.
In different sections, there are between four and eight lanes. The ring road is 38.9 km long. The Small Ring Road includes 18 multi-level transport interchanges.

Transport

Metro and light rail stations

Clockwise, starting from the north:
  • Line 2 ‘Pochaina’ Лінія 2 «Почайна»
  • Rapid tram station ‘Romana Shukhevycha’ Станція швидкісного трамвая «Романа Шухевича»
  • Line 1 ‘Chernihivska’ Лінія 1 «Чернігівська»
  • Line 3 ‘Druzhby Narodiv’ Лінія 3 «Дружби народів»
  • Line 2 ‘Demiivska’ Лінія 2 «Деміївська»
  • Rapid tram station 'Industrialna' Станція швидкісного трамвая «Індустріальна»
  • Line 1 ‘Shuliavska’ Лінія 1 «Шулявська»
  • Line 3 ‘Dorogozhychi’ Лінія 3 «Дорогожичі»