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Radioaktive Film Studio filmed a video for the British Trainline in the Kiev Metro

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Radioaktive Film Studio filmed a video for the British Trainline in the Kiev Metro. Ukrainian city landscapes and places are still popular as locations for promo from global brands. The well-known Kiev production studio Radioaktive Film once again made a commercial for a foreign brand in the Kiev Metro. This is an advertisement for the British online travel service Trainline to promote the Wonderfully Predictable platform . In the story, secret agent Sarah pursues the criminal Alexander, and he hides from the pursuit, changing from train to train.

New schemes in Kiev's Metro

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Designers volunteers " Agents of Change " developed   new schemes for the Kiev Metro. The new location is twice bigger than the previous . W e found that the size of 120 cm is preferred. This makes it easy to place the scheme in different carriages.  Unlike the old patterns of text is now located horizontally. This simplifies reading the inscriptions. Around the text is now more space , so the station names do not stick together in a solid mass . Also, the designers have identified interchanges between direct metro line. Agents of changes to the new scheme " cultural place ": important historic and cultural buildings, which are located next to metro stations. T he most noticeable difference from the previous scheme and similar schemes with other metro - we showed landmarks are located near metro stations. Inside the team we jokingly call it " cultural layer ". This is not a list of monu...

HOW TO: USE THE METRO IN KIEV (KYIV)

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The capital of Ukraine Kiev (Kyiv), is situated on the river Dnipro and has about 2.6 million inhabitants.   Its metro system is a typical ex-Soviet three line system (total length 65.2 km in Dec. 2011) with all lines meeting in the city centre to form a triangle. The network is entirely underground on the right bank of the river Dnipro (Dnieper) with two bridge-crossings of the river and one at-grade stretch on Line 1 on the left bank. A single ride costs 2.00  hryvnia  ($0.25) regardless of destination and number of transits within the metro. The ride is paid by plastic tokens and  contactless cards  when entering the metro. Plastic tokens are used for turnstiles; the tokens can be bought from cashiers at all stations or from automatic exchange machines that exchange 2 and 10 Hryvnia bills into tokens. The current tokens are of blue color. How To: Use the Metro in Kiev The guide has the following sections 1. Finding the metro...