Moscow Railway Station (Saint Petersburg)
| Moscow train station | |
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| Data | |
| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 11 |
| opening | 1847 |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Konstantin Thon |
| location | |
| City / municipality | St. Petersburg |
| Place / district | center |
| City with subject status | St. Petersburg |
| Country | Russia |
| Coordinates | 59 ° 55 '45 " N , 30 ° 21' 43" E |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in Russia | |
The Moscow train station ( Russian Московский вокзал ) in Saint Petersburg is one of the five main train stations in the city and is a hub for long-distance connections to Moscow and many other regions of Russia .
The train and the station building originated in 1847 with the partial opening of the railway line St. Petersburg-Moscow (also Nikolai train called; so the station was called until 1917 Nikolai Station , Russ. Николаевский вокзал ). Continuous traffic to Moscow began in 1851. The building was designed by the renowned Russian-German architect Konstantin Thon , who also played a key role in the construction of the Moscow terminus on the line - today's Leningrad train station (also at that time Nikolai train station ). From 1917 to 1924 the station was called Oktoberbahnhof (Russian Октябрьский вокзал ) in honor of the October Revolution , before it was given its current name.
Major renovations were made to the Moscow station building from 1950 to 1952 and 1967. In the 1950s, the station was connected to the then newly created subway network. Today it can be reached directly via two metro stations, Ploshchad Vosstaniya and Mayakovskaya .
In addition to long-distance trains, local trains to, among others, Volkhov and Veliky Novgorod are handled here.
inside view
Platforms
The Nikolaibahnhof 1851 ( August Pezold )
Station concourse (Pezold, 1851)
Web links
- Short story of the Moscow train station ( Memento from November 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
- Building history of the building (Russian)
