Ploshchad Vosstaniya
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 Platform of the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station, on the right in the background you can see escalators up to Mayakovskaya station |
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| Coordinates | 59 ° 33 '19 " N , 30 ° 12' 50" E |
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| Line (s) | line 1 |
Ploshchad Vosstaniya ( Russian Площадь Восстания ) is an underground metro station in the second largest Russian city of Saint Petersburg and an important transfer hub in the city's metro system .
The metro station, located on line 1 , was put into operation on November 15, 1955 as part of the first construction phase of the metro in what was then called Leningrad. In addition to the direct transition to the Mayakovskaya subway station of the third line, which was built later , Ploshchad Vosstaniya also serves as a connection point with rail traffic, as one of the most important long-distance train stations in Petersburg is located almost directly above the station with Moscow train station .
Location, entrances
The underground station is located in an underground shaft at a depth of 58 meters. He passes under Nevsky Prospect , the most important road in downtown Petersburg, exactly at the point where it intersects with Ligowski Prospect. The extensive square at this intersection, to the south of the station building of the Moscow train station and to the north of the Oktyabrskaya Hotel, built in 1857, is also named Ploshchad Vosstaniya, which literally means "place of the uprising". This name was given to the square in 1918, it was chosen in memory of popular protests during the February Revolution in 1917 , which, among other things, took place on this square. Before it was renamed, the square was called Znamenskaya Ploshchad, literally “Square of the Church of Our Lady of the Signs ”. Until it was demolished in the late 1930s, the latter stood exactly where the northern entrance building of the underground station is today.
Unlike most of the other metro stations in Saint Petersburg, Ploshchad Vosstaniya has two (instead of just one) separate entrances from the street, in addition to the transition to Mayakovskaya metro station. On the one hand there is the north entrance via the vestibule building on the north side of the square. This building was built in 1955 as the only access to the underground station at the time. It is a round, classical pavilion with side risalits and a rotunda on top with a decorative tip . Due to its outlines, which are reminiscent of the previous building - the demolished church - the pavilion is popularly known as a “cake”. Inside the vestibule is the counter hall of the underground station, from which, after passing the ticket barriers, you can take an escalator to the platform at its northern end.
The second entrance was only opened in 1960 and is directly connected to the reception building of the Moscow train station. This enables you to change between the underground station and long-distance and local transport without having to cross Nevsky Prospect beforehand. Here, too, escalators run between the ticket hall and the platform. In addition, the eastern entrance to the Mayakovskaya station is located in the southern vestibule.
platform
The architectural center of the subway station is its platform hall, which, in Soviet subway construction traditions, was built as a wide, three-part island platform . As with all Petersburg metro stations of the first construction phase and the post-war subway stations of the Moscow Metro on which they are based, the platform hall was also very splendid after an individual project (in this case under the direction of the architects Boris Shuravlyov , Igor Fomin and Vera Gankevich ) executed. The visual dominant feature here are massive pylons that separate the middle of the hall in two rows from the waiting and track areas in both directions. The bases of the pylons are clad with red marble , the floor with red granite slabs . The edges of the opposite pylons are connected to each other via the semicircular vault of the hall by arcade-like ornamental compositions, which alternate with identically constructed, also arched light chains. Above the plinth, the pylons on the side facing the central hall are decorated with circular, richly ornamented grilles of the ventilation duct.
In the middle of the hall between the north and south exits, the two rows of pylons are briefly interrupted by an intermediate hall, at the height of which the transition to Mayakovskaya station begins. From here several escalators lead a few meters upwards and end almost immediately in the Mayakovskaya platform hall. The pylons between these escalators and those of the southern exit are also decorated with bas- reliefs, the compositions of which, based on the name of the station or the square, have various events in the course of the Russian Revolution as their theme. You can see, among other things, a representation of Lenin giving a speech in the Tauride Palace and of the cruiser Aurora at its signal shot at the start of the fighting during the October Revolution .
The two walls above the tracks are decorated with red marble and several decorative rectangular bronze grids, which are decorated with plant ornaments and the year "1955". Unlike in the central hall, the lighting here comes from chandeliers on the ceiling.
See also
Web links
- History and description on petersburg-history.narod.ru ( Memento from December 25, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (Russian)
- Photos of the station (Russian) ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- http://metro.vpeterburge.ru/stations/1/vosst/ (Russian, photos)
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