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Leninsky Prospekt (Saint Petersburg Metro)
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Leninsky Prospekt is a station on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line
of the Saint Petersburg Metro
, located between Avtovo
and Prospekt Veteranov
.
The station was opened on September 29, 1977 in the section between Avtovo and Prospekt Veteranov, replacing the temporary surface station Dachnoye
. It is named for its location along the street of the same name.
There is no above-ground pavilion; entrance to the station is provided through underground pedestrian crossings, with exits onto Leninsky Prospekt and Bulvar Novatorov. Because of the station's shallow depth, neither exit has escalators.
Leninsky Prospekt is a shallow column station
with a depth of 8m. The underground hall was constructed as a project of the architects A. S. Getskin and Ye. I. Val and the engineer A. N. Yakovlev. The design of the station echoes Lenin's Mausoleum
. The platforms and the columns, which widen at the top, are faced with red Karelia
n granite
. Unpolished white marble
is used to decorate the walls.
Until the early 1990s the station was unique in its quadruple commemoration of the name of Lenin in its friezes: "V. I. Lenin Metro of Leningrad, order of Lenin. Leninsky Prospekt Station."
Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line
Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line is the oldest line of the Saint Petersburg Metro, opened in 1955. The original stations are very beautiful and elaborately decorated, especially Avtovo and Narvskaya. The line connects four out of five Saint Petersburg's main railway stations...
of the Saint Petersburg Metro
Saint Petersburg Metro
The Saint Petersburg Metro is the underground railway system in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It has been open since November 15, 1955.Formerly known as the V.I...
, located between Avtovo
Avtovo (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Avtovo is a station on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro. It was designed by architect Ye.A. Levinson and opened as part of the first Metro line on November 15, 1955....
and Prospekt Veteranov
Prospekt Veteranov (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Prospekt Veteranov is a station on the south end of Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro, next to Leninsky Prospekt.The station was opened on September 29, 1977 along with Leninsky Prospekt. It is located near the beginning of the street of the same name.This station has no...
.
The station was opened on September 29, 1977 in the section between Avtovo and Prospekt Veteranov, replacing the temporary surface station Dachnoye
Dachnoye
Dachnoye was a temporary station on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro. It was designed by architect Kseniya Afonskaya and opened on June 1, 1966. The station was created to serve the translation needs of nearby neighborhoods until the Leninisky Prospekt-Prospekt Veteranov...
. It is named for its location along the street of the same name.
There is no above-ground pavilion; entrance to the station is provided through underground pedestrian crossings, with exits onto Leninsky Prospekt and Bulvar Novatorov. Because of the station's shallow depth, neither exit has escalators.
Leninsky Prospekt is a shallow column station
Shallow column station
The shallow column station is a type of construction of subway stations, with the distinguishing feature being an abundance of supplementary supports for the underground cavity...
with a depth of 8m. The underground hall was constructed as a project of the architects A. S. Getskin and Ye. I. Val and the engineer A. N. Yakovlev. The design of the station echoes Lenin's Mausoleum
Lenin's Mausoleum
Lenin's Mausoleum also known as Lenin's Tomb, situated in Red Square in the center of Moscow, is the mausoleum that serves as the current resting place of Vladimir Lenin. His embalmed body has been on public display there since shortly after his death in 1924...
. The platforms and the columns, which widen at the top, are faced with red Karelia
Karelia
Karelia , the land of the Karelian peoples, is an area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Finland, Russia, and Sweden...
n granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
. Unpolished white marble
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone.Marble is commonly used for...
is used to decorate the walls.
Until the early 1990s the station was unique in its quadruple commemoration of the name of Lenin in its friezes: "V. I. Lenin Metro of Leningrad, order of Lenin. Leninsky Prospekt Station."