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Metro Stations

A very deep station of 1958 inside Finland Station, where Lenin arrived in 1917, with a mosaic of his speech and the…

Metro Stations

The metro stop for Ladozhsky Railway Station, opened in 1985 on Line 4, a deep single-vault station dedicated to the Road of…

Metro Stations

The metro stop for Pulkovo Airport shuttle buses, opened in 1969, a closed-type station with sliding doors, two underground vestibules and Moscow…

Metro Stations

A 1999 station whose glass-and-stone pavilion and limestone hall form one design, with a mirrored end wall and mosaic medallions. It opens…

Metro Stations

A modern shallow station opened in 2018 as Novokrestovskaya and renamed in 2020 after the football club. It serves the Gazprom Arena…

Metro Stations

A deep two-level station of 1997 with an ancient Greek sports theme, mosaics by Alexander Bystrov and a 300-metre tunnel with a…

Metro Stations

A deep closed-type station of 1967 on Vasilyevsky Island, with a pavilion raised on steps against floods, a white marble hall and…

Metro Stations

The nearest station to the Peter and Paul Fortress, opened in 1963 and devoted to the writer Gorky. A futuristic round pavilion…

Metro Stations

A 1967 closed-type station under Nevsky Prospekt, with a vestibule inside the Gostiny Dvor arcade, a stained-glass window above the escalators and…

Metro Stations

A 1963 station with no pavilion above ground, reached by a long underpass, with polished aluminium ribs on the arches. It links…