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Ploshchad Lenina (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Coordinates: 59°57′24″N 30°21′20″E / 59.95667°N 30.35556°E / 59.95667; 30.35556
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Ploshchad Lenina
Saint Petersburg Metro station
Station Hall
General information
Coordinates59°57′24″N 30°21′20″E / 59.95667°N 30.35556°E / 59.95667; 30.35556
Owned bySaint Petersburg Metro
Line(s)Line 1 (Saint Petersburg Metro) Kirovsko–Vyborgskaya Line
PlatformsIsland platform
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
DepthTemplate:Unit length
History
OpenedJune 1, 1958
Services
Preceding station   StPetersburg Metro   Following station
Template:STPETERSBURGMETRO lines

Depot 4 Severnoye
Devyatkino—Lavriki railroad
Devyatkino
Grazhdansky Prospekt
headshunt
Akademicheskaya
future line branching
Politekhnicheskaya
Ploschad Muzhestva
eroded tunnels
Lesnaya
Vyborgskaya
headshunts
Ploshchad Lenina
Chernyshevskaya
service siding to line 2
Ploshchad Vosstaniya
Vladimirskaya
Pushkinskaya
to track 1 of line 2
Tekhnologichesky Institut
to track 2 of line 1
Baltiyskaya
Narvskaya
headshunts
 ЗСД 
Western High-
Speed Diameter
Kirovsky Zavod
Avtovo
Dachnoye Depot
Avtovo Depot
Dachnoye (defunct)
Leninsky Prospekt
Prospekt Veteranov
headshunts

Ploshchad Lenina (Template:Lang-ru, Lenin Square) is a station on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro, located between Chernyshevskaya and Vyborgskaya. The station was opened on June 1, 1958, on the second line of the metro between Ploshchad Vosstaniya and Ploshchad Lenina. It was named after Lenin Square, the location of its surface vestibule. In the early plans, it was named "Finland Station."

Surface vestibules

The surface vestibule of the station was designed by architect A.K. Andreev. It was built into the Finlyandsky Rail Terminal building. The wall of the entrance hall is decorated with a panoramic mosaic that commemorates Lenin's speech before the workers and soldiers of Petrograd on April 3, 1917. It was created by artists A.I. Mylnikov and A.L. Korolyov.

In 1962, Andreev worked together with Yu.N. Kozlov and the engineer Ye.A. Erganov to design and complete second entrance from Botkinskoy street. Both entrances are served by three escalators.

Architecture and decoration

Ploshchad Lenina is a deep underground pylon station at 71 m depth. The underground hall was designed by architect A.K. Andreev.

The station's theme commemorated Lenin's return from Finland to Petrograd in June, 1917. Like the Chernyshevskaya station, completed in the period when Soviet architects tried to move away from architectural excesses of Stalinist era. As the result, the station is plain, somewhat barebones and inexpressive. The station used the contrasting red and white tones as its color scheme. The platform hall is faced with marble. On the platform walls are decorative grilles with the inscription "1958," the year the station was opened. In 2006 the lighting of the station was redone, with mercury lamps replaced by sodium lamps. On one hand, the station gained a brighter look, but on the other hand the color palette was entirely changed.

See also