On 8 May, the layout of Lavrska Street was changed for minibuses, buses and trolleybuses

On 8 May, minibuses, buses and trolleybuses will be running with certain changes on Lavrska Street in Kyiv. Temporary solutions are provided in connection with the events dedicated to the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II of 1939-1945, the press service of the Kyiv City State Administration reports.

The changes will take place on 8 May from 7:00 am until the end of the events.

Trolleybus No. 38 and buses No. 24 and 25 will run as usual. However, there will be no boarding or disembarking of passengers at stops on Lavrska Street – on the section from Heroiv Kruty Alley to Lavrsky Lane.

Buses #520 and #470 will also run along this section without boarding or alighting passengers.

Lavrska Street in Kyiv

Lavrska Street in Kyiv is located in the Pechersk district, Zvirynets, Pechersk, and partially Navodnychi. It runs from Slavy Square to Navodnytska Square.

It is joined by Lavrskyi lane, Tsytadelna, Dobrovolchenyi batalioniv, Kozyatynska, Novonavodnytskyi lane, Zapecherna and Redutna streets.

Since the times of Kyivan Rus, the street has been a part of the Ivanivskyi Way, which connected Podil with Pechersk and the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. On maps of the city of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it is marked as the Road to the Lavra.

In 1919, the street was named after the January Uprising. This was to commemorate the armed uprising of the Arsenal workers against the Central Rada in January 1918.

After the Second World War, the street was designated as 1st Citadel Street.

In 1981, Novonavodnytska Street was added to January Uprising Street.
In 1997, members of the Kyiv City Council voted to rename the street after the January Uprising, which was to be called Ivan Mazepa Street.

The current name has been in place since 2010, when a part of Ivan Mazepa Street from Glory Square to Heroes of the Great Patriotic War Square (now Navodnytska Square) was separated and renamed Lavrska Street.

In 2005, the Kyiv Commission on Names approved the return of Lavrska Street to its previous name in honour of Hetman Ivan Mazepa.

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