Chernyshevskaya

The station is named after the philosopher, writer and literary critic Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky. And also, at the same time, the avenue of the same name. Nikolai Gavrilovich's profile can be seen in the station lobby. But more on that later.

During the recent renovation, 3 old escalators were replaced with 4 new ones with a narrow balustrade. At the time of the station's opening, the world's tallest escalators were installed here. The lifting height is 65.8 meters, the length of the inclined part is 131.6 meters, 755 steps, each handrail is a loop with a length of 290 meters.

The hermetic door is a lifting one, such as a "toilet lid".

The station was built during the struggle against architectural excesses and is a monument to the transition from the Stalinist Empire to the ultimate Khrushchev economy. There is still marble in the decoration of the station, but tiles are already being used with might and main, as in the entire metro in the 1960s. There are no bright finishing elements anymore. The station hall is greatly shortened and executed strictly, but not yet completely minimalistic, as, for example, the station opened a little later Frunzenskaya. The floor was made of asphalt, which has already been replaced by staggered granite.

The ground lobby of the station is interesting. From the facade, it seems ordinary, rectangular, with beautiful stained glass "floor-to-ceiling". In fact, the building has a complex pentagonal shape.

Inside the lobby, you can see the classic design elements of the First stage of the subway. And the profile of Chernyshevsky, of course.

Still, it's very beautiful. Not like Khrushchev's minimalism.

It is interesting to compare the escalator before repair and after. Before the repair:

After the repair:

The main dominant feature of the decoration below, except for the tiles on the track walls, are horizontal shiny metal grilles.

They're everywhere.

Well, the tiles.

Initially, it was planned to build a closed-type station - a "horizontal elevator". But in the end, they built what they built.

Before the repair, interesting technological rarities could be seen at the station ;)

But they are no more :)

Well, a couple more theses.

For the first time in the history of the Leningrad metro, cornice lighting was used throughout the underground station, without chandeliers and lamps.

The station was opened later than the neighboring station Ploshchad Lenina due to problems with the inclined course.

Transfer to the station Ploshchad Lenina It was the first to pass under the Neva River, and was built using a caisson method due to the inability to accurately determine the relief of the river bottom.