Putilovskaya

The name of the station is associated with the nearby Kirovsky Zavod, which until 1922 was named after the outstanding industrialist Nikolai Putilov. He built this factory once. Accordingly, the stated theme of decorative compositions for the Putilovskaya station is the history of the Putilovsky Plant. See below what actually happened.

The station was also planned to be equipped with doors on the side platforms, similar to stations of the "horizontal elevator" type.

Design pictures.

The actual implementation.

In this regard, and because of the abundance of reflections, suitable trains are very poorly visible.

So far, you can see the signs "No boarding" on the second track, but it won't be for long. The benches are square and wooden.

Where is the Putilov factory in the design here - try to find it, I couldn't.

According to the description of the project, the main compositional emphasis is placed on the central hall of the platform. Stainless steel arches with a pitch of 7.6 meters with integrated LED lights. The white ceiling and light floor of the platform visually expand the space, give a feeling of lightness and airiness.

At one end of the central hall there is a passage to the good old Kirovsky Zavod.

There is a staircase from which you can look over the heads of the entire station.

On the other side of the central hall there are traditional escalators with a vertical hermetic door of the "guillotine" type.

The mechanisms of the hermetic door are brand new and shiny.

Let's go upstairs. Interestingly, at the new stations of this line, the lights on the escalator are completely unique. There are no such people anywhere else in Saint-Petersburg.

The design of the ground lobby is limited by the rear wall above the escalator. And there, too, the theme of the Kirov plant is guessed, well, frankly, not very well.

In principle, I can recognize in this drawing a very schematic mining drill. I don't know what the Kirov Plant has to do with it.

The lobby itself is a realm of planes and straight lines.

The exterior design of the lobby also speaks directly about the subway tunnels.

The building of the ground lobby is formed by two rectangular volumes located at an angle to each other. One of the volumes, located along Vasya Alekseeva Street, is designed as a gallery with double column-pylons, which includes retail premises. The lobby has three floors — one underground and two above ground.

You can even admire the drawings of the ground vestibule of the station.

On New Year's Eve, the lobby building is richly decorated with light bulbs.

However, let's go back underground. There's nothing to catch here. We look at the gloomy tunneling drill again.

We're going down.

But I must say that the station is beautifully decorated. Okay, there's nothing about the Kirov Plant. But it looks pretty.

The flow of people here is, of course, firmly tied to the passing trains. Whenever another train arrives at the station Kirovsky Zavod from the city center, crowds of penguin people rush along the crossing Kirovsky Zavod - Putilovskaya, transition. Obviously, in the morning all these people will rush in the opposite direction.

The trains here are also new, by the way. With different interesting displays. And someone is already lying on a bench in the middle of the station in a state of complete loss of reality. That's life.