The network of the St. Petersburg metro is one of the most extensive in the metro architecture of large Russian cities. The metro station at the Finland Station occupies an important place in it and is one of the most famous and passable.
Historic District near Finland Station
The metro station near the Finlyandsky railway station, "Lenin Square", is located on the right bank of the Neva, on the Vyborg side, along which the road to the Swedish fortress of Vyborg ran in ancient times.
This is one of the historical districts of the city. In the XIX - early XX centuries - the working outskirts. This territory began to be developed under Peter I, when two military hospitals were opened here - land and sea, on the site of which the Military Medical Academy was later opened. One of the oldest St. Petersburg enterprises, the Sugar Yard (factory), was also located here, on the site of which the toponym, Sakharny Lane, is still preserved. Not far away, just between the Finlyandsky railway station and the Vyborgskaya metro station, the church of St. Sampson the Hospitable was erected, and the Sampsonevsky Garden was laid out. In the 20th century, not far from Lenin Square, onwhich the metro station and the Finland station were built, one of the first urban Palaces of Culture - "Vyborgsky" was opened. And on the corner of the square and Arsenalnaya embankment, the district administration was located.
Metro station in the transport system of St. Petersburg
The metro station "Ploshchad Lenina" was built near the Finlyandsky railway station in St. Petersburg on the square of the same name not by chance: the building of the Finlyandsky railway station was also erected here at the beginning of the 20th century. From the second half of the 19th century, the Finnish branch of the Oktyabrskaya railway connected St. Petersburg with the northern lands - first with Vyborg, and at the beginning of the 20th century it was extended to the Finnish city of Helsinki, establishing a connection with our neighboring Finland.
The subway line passing through the Finlyandsky railway station - Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya - is the very first branch of the Leningrad subway. It connects the northern and southern districts of the city, passing through its historical center in the area of Vosstaniya Square, where another important railway junction is located - the Moscow railway station. Thus, from the metro station "Lenin Square" you can easily transfer from the Finnish branch of Russian Railways to Moscow. And if you drive a few more stops on the metro - to "Pushkinskaya", then to Vitebskaya. If you drive a couple more stations and get off at the B altiyskaya metro station, you can also ride along the B altic and Warsaw lines of Russian Railways. How to get to the Finlyandsky railway station in St. Petersburg? The most convenient way is by subway. But many land transport routes are also oriented towards this important urban site. Finnish addressstation - Lenin Square, building 6.
Architectural solution of the station
The metro station "Ploshchad Lenina" near the Finlyandsky railway station has its name in connection with the important urban development objects located nearby: one exit from the station leads to the building of the Finlyandsky railway station and Lenin Square, the other vestibule goes to Komsomol street, street Academician Lebedev and Botkinskaya street.
The station building was erected in 1870 from reinforced concrete structures, the walls of which are cut through by large glazing areas vertically elongated between the pylons. The center of the building is marked by a turret with a spire and a clock located on the roof of the station. The metro station was built here only in 1958. Its upper vestibule from the side of the first exit is decorated with a mosaic panel, which depicts V. I. Lenin against the background of red banners and golden rays of the sun.
The lower vestibule of the station is of the pylon type and is decorated in red-brown-white tones. Marble was used for facing. The station belongs to the deep subway stations.
History and Surroundings
What important historical sites are still located near the metro station "Lenin Square" at the Finland Station? First of all, I recall the monument to V. I. Lenin in the center of Lenin Square, reminding that it was at the Finland Station that a train arrived, in a sealed wagon of which from Finland to Petrograd shortly beforerevolution of 1917, the leader of the proletariat, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, arrived. And it was here that his historic performance from an armored car took place. That is how he is depicted in the monument. And on the station wall there is a memorial plaque informing residents and guests of the city about memorable events.
Slightly to the side along the Arsenal embankment rise the red-brick buildings of one of the oldest factories in the northern capital - "New Arsenal", and a little deeper into the building - another oldest plant - "Metal". A little further along the Neva, there are buildings of one of the sadly memorable places in the city - the Kresty prison, in which a huge number of people were imprisoned and shot during the years of Stalinist repressions, including the famous poet N. Gumilyov.
