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Metro Highlights

Ploshchad Vosstaniya
1 stations in the city, Frunzenskaya
Station
has a relatively simple design,
MAP E4 notable for its absence of ornate
While the interior of the station is chandeliers and marble columns.
highly ornate, the distinguished
Kirovskiy Zavod Station
exterior – a curious circular structure 3
topped with a steeple – has a Kirovskiy Zavod station (1955),
crumbling beauty. The station, part which means “Kirov Factory station”,
of the 1955 Line One construction, is is named after a nearby factory.
dedi cated to the 1917 Revo lution. Although the station’s elegant
Today the building is the subject of de sign, with its marble columns
ongoing resto ration work and is, at and wide plat form, was intended
times, obscured by scaffold ing. to pay homage to the achievements
of Soviet industry, the building
resembles an ancient Greek temple.
Mezhdunarodnaya
4
Station
This modern station opened in 2012.
The name means “International”
and is taken from the many local
streets named after East European
politicians. Its most noteworthy
feature is an impressive mosaic
of Atlas holding up the world.
5
Ploshchad Vosstaniya station Avtovo Station
The Avtovo station, like the
Frunzenskaya Station
2 vast majo rity of metro stations in
Russia, was construc ted during the
Named in honour of the
Bolshevik leader Mikhail Frunze, Soviet period. It opened in 1955 and
Frunzenskaya metro station was intended to act as one of many
was opened in 1961 as part of “Palaces for the People”. Complete
St Petersburg’s Line Two project. with chandeliers and marble
Its central feature is a large columns, this station reveals a
monument depicting Frunze with fascinating part of the city’s history.
his revolutionary comrades. In
comparison with many other Ornate Avtovo Station

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