95th Quarter or Kvartal 95 (Ukrainian: 95 квартал) is a public square and also a residential neighborhood in downtown Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. Its name literally means "quarter", in the way the city was divided during the post-war (World War II) Soviet period. Nowadays, the neighborhood became famous in connection with the 6th president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy — and his stage production Kvartal 95 Studio, which was named after it due to its proximity to all project participants (although the number "95" also had symbolic significance).
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Kryvyi Rih, also known as Krivoy Rog, is a city in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kryvyi Rih Raion and its subordinate Kryvyi Rih urban hromada in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The city is part of the Kryvyi Rih Metropolitan Region. Its population is estimated at 603,904, making it the seventh-most populous city in Ukraine and the second largest by area. Kryvyi Rih is claimed to be the longest city in Europe.
Located at the confluence of the Saksahan and Inhulets rivers, Kryvyi Rih was founded as a military staging post in 1775. Urban-industrial growth followed Belgian, French and British investment in the exploitation of the area's rich iron-ore deposits, generally called Kryvbas, in the 1880s. Kryvyi Rih gained city status after the October Revolution in 1919.
Stalin-era industrialisation built Kryvorizhstal in 1934, the largest integrated metallurgical works in the Soviet Union. After a brutal German occupation in World War II, Kryvyi Rih experienced renewed growth through to the 1970s. The economic dislocation associated with the break-up of the Soviet Union contributed to high unemployment and a large-scale exodus from the city in the 1990s. The privatization of Kryvorizhstal in 2005 was followed by increased foreign and private investment which helped finance urban regeneration. Beginning in 2017, there were major labour protests and strikes.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Kryvyi Rih has been the target of frequent Russian missile strikes. It was a focus of the southern Ukraine campaign, but the closest ground advance by Russia stalled some 50 kilometres to the south of the city before it was turned back in March 2022.
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Miska Rada is an underground station on the Kryvyi Rih Metro. It opened on 23 February 1988 as part of the first segment of the second stage.
The station sits right in the center of the city next to the city council building. When the station was opened, there were delays with the construction of two other stations, so to justify the system, a temporary shuttle service was organized with two three-car trams ferrying passengers between the city center and the reversal ring on the Mudryona station. On 2 May 1989, after the completion of the remaining two stations on the second stage, standard transit was possible and the shuttle service was discontinued.
The station also lacks an external vestibule; instead, two vestibules are located underground on both ends of the platform. One of the biggest problems that arose with the construction of a Metro-type station was that unidirectional trams, common in the Soviet Union, only have doors on the right side, meaning that the direction had to alternate prior to arriving at the station with an island platform. As a result, the tracks cross before reaching the station and continue on the same side until Prospekt Metalurhiv where they cross back to the standard right-hand arrangement
The station is a typical single vault. The two stations are also most extravagant, which is another trademark of ex-Soviet Metro systems. Whereas other stations make use of the architecture of the surface structure and arrange the interior to be aesthetic, this station is exactly the opposite. Red marble is used for the walls and floor; the ceiling of the vault consists of a hexagonal honeycomb arrangement. Three mosaics with a Soviet theme are present on both walls. Lighting comes from a series of light bulbs installed in the center of each hexagon on the apexal rows of the vault. However, for financial reasons, it is rare that they are all turned on at once.
In 2024, the Budynok Rad station was renamed to Miska Rada, as a result of decommunization.
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Kryvyi Rih City Council is a local government body of Kryvyi Rih urban hromada in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The administrative center is Kryvyi Rih.
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Kryvyi Rih National University is a public university located in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. It consists of seven faculties and five institutes. The university was founded in 1922 as the Kryvyi Rih Evening Working College, and reorganized onto Kryvyi Rih Mining University. During the Soviet era, Kryvyi Rih University was one of the top professional universities in the USSR. In 2011 the Cabinet of Ukraine founded Kryvyi Rih National University by uniting Technic University, State Pedagogical University, Institute of Economics and also Institute of Metallurgy.
With Zelenskyy becoming President of Ukraine and gaining increasing international fame, the name "95th Quarter" spread beyond Ukraine.
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