Parking yes Fare zone 0 Address St Petersburg, Russia Platforms in use 6 (5 island platforms) Architect Konstantin Thon | Station code 03181 Rebuilt 1952, 1967, 1976 Opened 1847 Tracks 11 | |
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Location 85, Nevsky av., St. Petersburg, Russia Connections Saint Petersburg Metro stations:
Ploshchad Vosstaniya
Mayakovskaya Architectural style Renaissance Revival architecture Similar Vosstaniya Square, Ladozhsky railway station, Ploshchad Vosstaniya, Vitebsky railway station, Mayakovskaya | ||
St.Petersburg-Glavny (Russian: Санкт-Петербург-Главный), is a railway station terminal in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is a terminus for the Saint Petersburg – Moscow Railway and other lines running from Central and South Russia, Crimea, Siberia and Eastern Ukraine.
History
The oldest preserved station in the city, it was erected in 1844-51 to a design by Konstantin Thon. As Nicholas I of Russia was the reigning monarch and the greatest patron of railway construction in the realm, the station was named Nicholaevsky after him. Rechristened Oktyabrsky to memorialize the October Revolution in 1924, the station was not given its present name until 1930.
Although large "Venetian" windows, two floors of Corinthian columns and a two-storey clocktower at the centre explicitly reference Italian Renaissance architecture, the building incorporates other features from a variety of periods and countries. A twin train station, currently known as the Leningradsky railway station, was built to Thon's design at the other end of the railway, in Moscow.
While Thon's facade remains fundamentally intact to this day, the station was expanded in 1869-79 and 1912. It was completely redeveloped internally in 1950-52 and 1967. A bronze bust of Peter the Great in the main vestibule was unveiled in 1993, replacing a bust of Lenin. The station is served by the Mayakovskaya and Vosstaniya Square stations of the Saint Petersburg Metro, with both stations linked to the station building by an underground corridor.