Petrogradskaya

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Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line
Parnas
Prospekt Prosveshcheniya
Ozerki
Udelnaya
Pionerskaya
Chyornaya Rechka
Petrogradskaya
Gorkovskaya
Nevsky Prospekt
Sennaya Ploshchad
Tekhnologichesky Institut
Frunzenskaya
Moskovskiye Vorota
Elektrosila
Park Pobedy
Moskovskaya
Zvezdnaya
Kupchino
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Petrogradskaya (Russian: Петрогра́дская) is a station on the Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro.

The station was opened on July 1, 1963. The name was given by its location on Petrograskaya Storona, one of the historical districts of Saint Petersburg.

The ground vestibule is made by architectors Andreev, Moskalenko and is built into the building of "Dom mod" ("House of Fashions"), located on crossroad of Kamennoostrovsky prospect and Big prospect of Petrogradskaya Storona, near Leon Tolstoy square. There is underground slope to a pedestrian subway (originally with escalators, dismantled later).

Petrogradskaya is station of deep location with platform screen doors. Its depth is 53 meters. Underground hall is constructed by project of Belov, Govorkovsky, Rivin, Tregubov, Shimakovsky architectors. Crimped surface of the walls is tiled with ceramics. Butt wall is decorated with panel against the blue grating background with profiles of worker and kolkhoz woman, which expose tht theme of revolutionary Petrograd.

A transfer to circular line is planned.

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  • Петербургский метрополитен: от идеи до воплощения. Альбом-каталог. — СПб.:ГМИСПб, 2005. ISBN 5-902671-21-3 (Russian)
  • Метрополитен Северной Столицы (Альбом) / Под ред. Гарюгина В. А. — СПб.: Издательство «Лики Росиии», 1995. ISBN 5-87417-020-0 (Russian)

Coordinates: 59°57′59″N 30°18′41″E / 59.96639, 30.31139