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Ploshchad
Finlyandskiy 8
Alexandra
Nevskogo Station
VASILEVSKIY MAP G5
OSTROV
Ploshchad Alexandra
NEVSKIY PR
TSENTRALNYY Ladozhskiy Nevskogo is notable
Moskovskiy for the colour ful mural
Vitebskiy Neva OKTYABRSKAYA NAB immedi ately in side
the entrance, which
Baltiyskiy depicts Russia’s defeat
of Swedish invaders in
the 13th century. Opened
in 1985, this was St
ULITSA SEDOVA
FRUZENSKY
Petersburg’s first station
on the Pravoberezhnaya
MOSKOVSKIY PROSPEKT
VITEBSKIY PROSPEKT
MOSKOVSKIY (right bank) Line.
0 km 2 PROSPEKT SLAVY Baltiskaya
Station
0 miles 2 KUPCHINO 9
Another Line One metro
The station’s Woman with Child station dating from 1955,
mosaic is topped with the Baltiskaya station features a
words “Peace to the World”. large image of Baltic socialist
revolutionaries from Latvia,
Pushkinskaya
6 Estonia and Lithuania,
Station
hoisting the red flag of
MAP D5 socialism aloft in victory.
Named after Pushkin, Its exterior is a mas sive
Russia’s national poet Socialist Realism
(see p40), this station is construction typical
one of the most beautiful of the period.
in St Petersburg. A statue
Narvskaya
of a pensive Pushkin is 0
the centrepiece of the Station
station, which is a master­ The sculpted figures in
piece of archi tec tural this station are gazing
design. Pushkinskaya at someone who is no
station was opened in longer there – it’s Stalin
1956, later than the (1878–1953), the dictator
other stations on Line Statue at Pushkinskaya whose once ubiquitous
One, due to problems station image was removed from
with tunneling. the USSR following Nikita
Khrushchev’s “secret” denounce­
Admiralteyskaya Station
7 ment of Stalinism in 1956 (see p91).
MAP L3
Opened in 2011, and built 86 m (282 ft)
below ground to avoid damaging the
nearby Hermitage, this station with
marine decor is one of the world’s
deepest underground stations – Kiev’s
Arsenalna station is the deepest at
107 m (351 ft). Admiralteyskaya’s
escalator is also one of the world’s
longest at 125 m (410 ft) long, pipped
by Moscow’s Park Pobedy station’s
escalator at 126.8 m (416 ft). Sculpted figures in Narvskaya station
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