Ploshchad Vosstaniya

Another gorgeous station of the First stage of the Leningrad metro. From the moment of opening until June 1, 1958, it was the terminus on the line. The first station in the city with two exits.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

The gate to Moscow via the Sapsan high-speed trains, directly to the Komsomolskaya station of the Moscow metro.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

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As we already know, each station has its own architectural dominant. Here it's circles and arcs. Especially the amazing light arcs along the entire central hall of the station.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

In general, the station is surprisingly positive and bright.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

And always, even in the dead of night, very crowded.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

The station's decoration is dedicated to the October armed Uprising of 1917.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

On the pylons you can see bas-reliefs of revolutionary themes, a total of 4 unique images. And, by the way, this is the only place in the Saint-Petersburg metro where images of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin have survived on bas-reliefs.

Here you are. Bas-reliefs "Lenin in Flood" and "Lenin and Stalin in the captured Winter Palace".

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

And here are the bas-reliefs "Aurora Shot" and "Lenin's speech at the Finlandsky railway station." This is where he pointed with his armoured car to a bright future.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

There used to be a bas-relief portrait of Lenin in the blind end of the central hall. But during the construction of the second exit - Ploshchad Vosstaniya, to Moskovsky railway Station - it was dismantled.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

Almost all the shapes here are circles and arcs. Incredibly helps to fill up the horizon when shooting ;)

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

In the right photo above, behind the decorative grille, the Stalinist speaker, already familiar to us from some other stations, made for centuries and designed for a direct hit by a nuclear bomb, is clearly visible ;)

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The chandeliers in the side halls are also decent. In the right photo below, you can see how the platform to the station Vladimirskaya is squeezed from the side-from above by the central transition to the station Mayakovskaya - Ploshchad Vosstaniya - Mayakovskaya, crossings. By the way, the shortest subway stretch in the city begins from here - according to some data, 848 meters, according to others 720.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

The passage itself is from the center of the hall.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

And at the top of the transition, even in the color sense, a completely different realm immediately opens up.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

Semicircular arches stand out above the side platforms and the central halls. These are railway bridges over which trains run 3rd Green Line.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

The station is included in the unified state register of cultural heritage sites of regional significance. And quite rightly, she is very beautiful.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

There are a lot of authentic elements. Now they have forgotten how to do this.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

Now to the escalators. The hermetic door is of the vertical type, "guillotine".

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

The ground-level lobby of the station is a symbol of the Peterburg metro.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

The spire originally had a star in a laurel wreath, removed in the mid-1980s and early 1990s due to the danger of collapse. Then the letter "M" was put in its place, which was also then removed.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

There are also circles and different classical shapes inside the lobby.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

In general, it is also beautiful and rich up here.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

Let's go back down.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

It is said that during the construction of the station there was an incident with the penetration of groundwater. I don't know the details.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

A couple more details.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

It's a good station.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg

Worthy.

Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg
Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Uprising Square) Metro Station, Saint Petersburg