Lenin Square (metro station, St. Petersburg)

The first ground lobby of the station was designed by architect A.K. Andreev and is located at the square of the same name . The lobby is built into the Finland Station building ^[4] . The wall of the checkout hall is decorated with a mosaic panel dedicated to Lenin's speech to the workers and soldiers of Petrograd on April 3, 1917, and the work of artists A. A. Mylnikov and A. L. Korolev .

On August 4, 1962, a second surface exit was opened in a park on Botkinskaya Street , designed by the same architect with the participation of Yu. N. Kozlov and engineer E. A. Erganov. The lobby is circular in plan. Passengers need to get around the ramp to get on or off the subway from the street. At the exit from the escalator, passengers see a wall in front of them with corrugated glass windows. Outside, the facade of the lobby stands out with large display windows.

After replacing the name (removing the line “Lenin’s name” from the station’s name), letters were put on the facade of the lobby, looking like plastic ones. Until 2004, two visors went up above the entrance and exit, but due to the tragedy that occurred in 1999 on Sennaya Square , they were dismantled.

In 2006, a cash desk was equipped in the lobby of Finland Station. The lobby is decorated with original lights.

Both exits are equipped with three escalators . The same, the highest escalators in the world at the time of opening were installed on Lenin Square, as well as on Chernyshevskaya (lifting height 65.8 meters, length of the inclined part 131.6 meters, 755 steps, each handrail - loop 290 meters long ) Escalator balustrades retained original burgundy panels and fixtures.

“Lenin Square” is a deep- laid pylon station (depth ≈ 67 m). The underground hall was designed by architect A.K. Andreev.

Just like the Chernyshevskaya station, Lenin Square was built during the period of struggle against architectural excesses. However, due to the fact that the station lobby was supposed to be built into the new building of the Finland Station, which was a large passenger hub of the suburban traffic, all three station naves were made in tunnels of increased diameter - 9.5 m (at Chernyshevskaya the tunnels have a diameter of 8.5 m). The station is designed in contrasting red and white colors. The whole station is equipped with backlight lighting.

Cornices are located at an altitude of about two meters, almost at the level of view of passengers. In 2006, the station's lighting was changed from mercury lamps to sodium . On the one hand, the station began to look lighter, and on the other, the color palette completely changed. As of the summer of 2007, the lighting remained multi-colored: the passages between the pylons were illuminated with white lamps, and the station halls were yellow.

Apron Halls

The track walls of the apron halls are tiled in two colors: bottom - black, top - white; decorative grilles with the inscription “1958” are installed on the doors of the track walls (according to the year the station was opened). On top of the tile is a wooden cornice painted with ball paint.

The walls are decorated with marble , they are horizontal lamps cornice lighting. On the pylons, the lamps are located directly behind the cornices. The floor of the aprons is granite.

Central Hall

The shortened central hall of the station is located between two arches of the hermetic gate, behind each of which there is an escalator hall. The entire perimeter of the hall uses lamps hidden behind the cornices of the pylons. However, immediately after the opening of the station in the central hall, original chandeliers hung on the vault ^[5] , but subsequently they were removed, and their further fate is unknown. The floor of the central hall is covered with red granite with gray edging and white framing at the edges.

Buses

• 28 :   Lenin Square - Belorusskaya Street
• 37 :   Lenin Square - Belorusskaya Street
• 49 :   Lenin Square -   Gostiny Dvor -   Hay Square ,   Spasskaya   Sadovaya - Dvinskaya street
• 86 :   Lenin Square -   Vyborg -   Lanskaya -   Ozerki - Zhenya Egorova Street
• 106 :   Lenin Square -   Piskaryovka
• 107 :   Lenin Square -   Piskaryovka
• 133 :   Lenin Square -   Piskaryovka -   Streams

Trolleybus

• 3 : Marshal Tukhachevsky street -   Vladimirskaya   Dostoevskaya -   Pushkinskaya ,   Zvenigorodskaya   Vitebsky Station -    Institute of Technology -   Baltic   Baltic Station
• 8 : Trolleybus fleet number 2 -   Vladimirskaya   Dostoevskaya -   Pushkinskaya ,   Zvenigorodskaya   Vitebsky Station -    Institute of Technology -   Baltic   Baltic Station
• 38 : Svetlanov Avenue -   Civil Avenue -   Lenin Square
• 43 :   Lenin Square -   Prospect Bolsheviks -   Dybenko Street - c / st "Okkervil River"

Trams

• 3 :   Lenin Square -   Gostiny Dvor -   Hay Square ,   Spasskaya   Sadovaya - Repin Square
• 6 :   Lenin Square -   Gorkovskaya -   Sports -   Vasileostrovskaya -   Primorskaya - Shipbuilders Street
• 20 :   Lenin Square -   Vyborg -   Forest -   Lanskaya -   Ozerki - Kultury Avenue
• 23 :   Lenin Square -   Novocherkasskaya -   Dybenko Street - Solidarity Avenue
• 30 :   Lenin Square -   Rzhevka

• The commissioning of the station allowed for a long time to connect all the railway stations of the city with one subway line. This task was set before the war , and its implementation took more than 10 years.
• The ferry to the Chernyshevskaya station was the first to pass under the Neva . The penetration was carried out using a shield method, with the forehead of the face open (i.e., the surrounding soils in the face were not isolated from the tunnel). Therefore, to squeeze out water seeping under the riverbed, the penetration was carried out using a caisson , which creates excess pressure in the tunnel for the construction period. The lining of the tunnel in the under-channel zone is two-layer: the outer tunnel with a diameter of 6.0 / 5.56 m and the inner one with a diameter of 5.5 / 5.1 m.

Station in numbers

The time table of the passage of the first train through the station ^[6] :

Behind the station is a 6-way reversing dead end. Previously in the middle dead ends was VET ^? . It should be noted that the 3rd path does not end with a dead end stop, but continues on (the path is blocked by lattice gates ), the traffic lights after the gate are turned in the opposite direction.

On the stage to Vyborgskaya one can see several abandoned tunnels turned into pantries. This is due to the fact that the route of the haul changed 3 times.

• Authors of projects of St. Petersburg metro stations
• List of St Petersburg metro stations
• Lenin Square (metro station, Minsk)
• Lenin Square (metro station, Novosibirsk)
• Lenin Square (metrotram station)

• Petersburg Metro: from idea to implementation. Album catalog. - SPb.: GMISPb, 2005. ISBN 5-902671-21-3
• Subway of the Northern Capital (Album) / Ed. Garyugina V. A. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House "Faces of Russia", 1995. ISBN 5-87417-020-0

• "Lenin Square" on metro.vpeterburge.ru
• "Lenin Square" on ometro.net
• "Lenin Square" on the forum metro.nwd.ru
• St. Petersburg. Petrograd. Leningrad: Encyclopedic Handbook. "Lenin Square"