CNN: ‘Palaces of the people’ By CNN. Published Nov. 11, 2019. Updated Nov. 11 at 3:01 pm A man checks his phone as he waits for the train at Zoloti Vorota metro station in Kyiv on May 3., 2017. Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin Inside the lavish metro stations of the Soviet era. Read more here.