Owned by Saint Petersburg Metro Structure type Underground Opened 30 April 1956 Owner Saint Petersburg Metro | Platforms Island platform Depth ≈57 m (187 ft) Platform Island platform Tracks 2 | |
Line(s) Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line Address St Petersburg, Russia, 191180 Similar Zvenigorodskaya, Tekhnologichesky Institut, Frunzenskaya, Dostoyevskaya, Vladimirskaya |
Pushkinskaya (Russian: Пу́шкинская) is a station of the Saint Petersburg Metro. It first opened on 30 April 1956, under the original name of "Vitebskiy vokzal".
There is a monument in the station dedicated to the poet Alexander Pushkin sculpted by Mikhail Anikushin. This station was the first USSR metro station with memorial located under the ground.
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Pushkinskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA