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Soviet Landmarks

Lenin’s Train
0 metres 1000 4
PETROGRADSKAYA Finland Station was
STORONA PIROGOVSKAYA NA B 0 yards 1000
VYBORGSKAYA opened in the mid-1960s,
STORONA and contains Locomotive
Gorkovskaya Finlyandskiy 293, the train on which
KAMENNOOSTROVSKIY PR
Aleksandrovskiy Lenin rode when
Park PETROVSKAYA NAB ARSEN A LNAYA NAB returning from exile to
PETROGRADSKAYA NAB
K R O N VE R K SKAYA N AB Liteynyy N e va Russia to launch the 1917
Most
Troitskiy
NAB ROBESPERA
Most NAB KUTUZOVA SHPALERRNAYA UL Revolution that would
bring him to power. Once
1.5 km
Neva Chernyshevskaya a requisite sight for any
DV OR TS OVAYA N AB exhibited in a glass case
Dvortsovyy ULITSA KIROCHNAYA Soviet visitor, this train,
ULITSA VOSSTANIYA
Most TSENTRALNYY S ADO VAYA ULITSA NAB RE K I FONTANKI on platform 5, attracts
DVORTSOVAYA RAYON LITEYNYY PROSPEK T U LITS A NE KR A SOVA far less attention these
PLOSHCHAD Nevskiy
Admiralteyskaya Prospekt days (see p101).
5
10 km Siege Plaque
NEVSKIY PROSPEKT
This plaque was
Revolution Square
1 put up during the darkest days of the
Revolution Square was the
Siege of Leningrad (see p15 & p38)
name given by the Soviets to the site to warn citizens that the side of the
of one of the most brutal scenes of road on which it sat was the most
“Bloody Sunday” (see p38). Now dangerous during an artillery attack.
known as Trinity Square, it is a It is a stark reminder of the horrors
pleasant leafy space (see p96). of World War II, when millions of the
city’s citizens starved to death.
Statue of Lenin in
2
Ploshchad Lenina
MAP E2
This statue of Lenin, erected in
1926, por trays him delivering a fiery
speech to cheering crowds following
his return from exile in 1917.
Museum of Russian
3
Political History
Lenin gave one of his many inspiring
speeches from a
balcony at this mansion,
which is named after Façade of the Smolnyy Institute
ballerina Matilda
Smolnyy Institute
Kshesinskaya (see p97). 6
Now a museum, it MAP G3 • Ploshchad
contains Lenin’s office, Proletarskoy Diktatury 3 • 576 7461
restored to its Soviet- • Open by appointment only
era state. Memorabilia This Neo-Classical building was at
from the period of one time a school for young noble-
revolutionary struggle women, but during the days following
are housed upstairs. the 1917 Revolution, it was the seat
of government. Lenin ruled from
Museum of Russian here until March 1918, when the
Political History Soviets moved the capital to Moscow.
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