Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) Metro – Baltiyskaya – Line 1

Posted on 16/02/2024 by Michael

Baltyskaya – Alex ‘Florstein’ Fedorov

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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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Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) Metro – Avtovo – Line 1

Posted on 07/02/2024 by Michael

Avtovo – Alex ‘Florstein’ Fedorov

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Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) Metro – Avtovo – Line 1

Avtovo – 04

Avtovo (Russian: А́втово) is a station on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro. Designed by architect Yevgenii Levinson, it opened as part of the first Leningrad Metro line on November 15, 1955. In 2014, The Guardian included it on the list of 12 most beautiful metro stations in the world.

Avtovo – 02

Avtovo’s unique and highly ornate design features columns faced with ornamental glass manufactured at the Lomonosov factory. Although the original plan envisaged using glass on all of the columns in the station, white marble was substituted on some due to time constraints. This marble was supposed to be temporary, but it has never been replaced. The walls are faced with white marble and adorned on the north side by a row of ornamental ventilation grilles. At the end of the platform a mosaic by V.A. Voronetskiy and A.K. Sokolov commemorates the Leningrad Blockade (1941-1944) during the Second World War.

Avtovo – 03

Unlike the other stations on the first line, Avtovo is a shallow-level station, constructed using the cut and cover method. It belongs to the shallow column class of underground stations.

Avtovo – 01

Avtovo has as its entrance vestibule a large Neoclassical building with a domed cupola, located on the east side of Prospekt Stachek.

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Location:

Kirovsky District

GPS:

59°52′02.37″N

30°15′40.87″E

Depth:

12m (39ft)

Opened:

November 15, 1955

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Ploshchad Revolyutsii to Okhotny Ryad

Posted on 29/01/2024 by Michael

Transfer from Ploshchad Revolyutsii – Alex ‘Florstein’ Fedorov

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Ploshchad Revolyutsii to Okhotny Ryad

The long corridor between the two stations is remarkable not just for the imagery that still exists but for the great number of empty spaces that, at one time, would have included sculptures and representations of the Soviet Union’s struggle to build Socialism.

Transfer from Ploshchad Revolyutsii – 01

Presented here is an introduction to this corridor used by thousands of people everyday, few of whom will take notice of the beauty and the work that went into the construction of the system dating from the mid-1930s. In what that remains there’s an emphasis on imagery from the Great Patriotic War.