Baltyskaya – Alex ‘Florstein’ Fedorov

Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) Metro – Baltiyskaya – Line 1

Baltiyskaya – 01

Baltiyskaya (Russian: Балти́йская) is a station on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro, located between Narvskaya and Tekhnologichesky Institut.

Baltiyskaya – 02

Baltiyskaya is an underground bore-tunnel tri-span station with one exit and middle tunnel of full length. It is situated 57 metres (187ft) under surface level. The exit feeds into Baltiysky Rail Terminal building. A second exit, which will lead from the opposite side of the underground platform, is also planned. For the decoration of the station Ural marble was used, representing the silver colour of the sea. Baltiyskaya station was opened on 15 November 1955 as the first part of Saint Petersburg’s metro system. The project name for the station had been Baltiyskiy Vokzal.

Baltiyskaya – 03

Text from Wikipedia.

At one end of the station platform there’s a large mosaic commemorating the October Revolution of 1917, with an image of the cruiser Aurora in the background.

Location:

Admiralteysky District

GPS:

59°54′25.97″N

30°17′58.26″E

Depth:

57m (187ft)

Opened:

November 15, 1955

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Smolenskaya (Russian: Смоленская) is a station on the Filyovskaya line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened in 1935 as part of the first Metro line. Designed by S.G. Andriyevsky and T.N. Makarychev, the station features grey marble pillars with flared bases and walls faced with white ceramic tile. Smolenskaya originally had two entrance vestibules, but one was demolished with the expansion of the Garden Ring avenue. There are still two sets of exit stairs on the platform, but one leads to a dead end where the passage to the old vestibule (very similar to the one still in use at Chistye Prudy) used to be. There is no direct transfer to Smolenskaya. Instead, there is a direct transfer to Plyushchika planned to the station from the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line.