Parnas (metro)
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Parnas (Russian: Парна́с) is a station that is currently under construction on the Saint Petersburg Metro in Russia. It will be the northern terminus of the Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line and the next station after Prospekt Prosveshcheniya. The station will be on the surface, between the tunnel portal and the Vyborg Yards.
Parnas is scheduled to open for service on December 26, 2006. It was supposed to open soon after Prospekt Prosveshcheniya was constructed in 1988. But a planned residential district in the area of Parnas (Russian: Парна́с) and Shuvalovo (Russian: Шува́лово) manufacturing zones was called off, and Parnas station was intended to serve those residents. In addition, there were delays in building the Vyborg Yards.
Parnas was thus named because of its proximity to the Parnas manufacturing zone. During the planning stage the station was named Parnas. It is a covered station on the surface and similar in construction to Kupchino, Rybatskoye and Devyatkino stations, which are also located between tunnel portals and their lines' yards. But unlike those stations, Parnas will not be a transfer point for suburban commuter trains (elektrichkas).
The station was first mentioned in 1984, and at one time was even drawn as a future station on line maps in train cars, but this was later removed. The initial station project was approved in 1991 by the Committee on City Construction and Architecture (KGA), but was later called off. A new project was developed in 1995. After the final decision on the construction of the station in 2005, the 1995 plan was quickly reworked. Instead of passages under the tracks, the station's design has overhead crossings. In addition, elevators for handicapped passengers were installed.
In the beginning, the name of the station was planned as Parnasskaya (Russian: Парна́сская, but in December 2006 the station appeared in official metro map as "Parnas".
[edit] External link
(Russian) Parnasskaya on metro-spb.nwd.ru
