Ploshchad Vosstaniya (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Ploshchad Vosstania (Russian Площадь Восстания ) is an underground metro station in Russia's second largest city of St. Petersburg and a major transfer hubs in the metro system of the city.

Located on the line 1 subway station was taken as part of the first phase of construction of the metro system in the then Leningrad heart of the charming city into operation on 15 November 1955. In addition to the direct transition to the later built Metro Station Ploshchad Vosstania Majakovskaya the third line also serves as a connection point with the rail transport, as there is almost directly above the station to the Moscow Railway Station one of the main railway stations Petersburg.

Location, accesses

The metro station is located in an underground shaft at a depth of 58 meters. It crosses the Nevsky Prospect, the main street traffic in downtown Petersburg, precisely in height whose intersection with the Ligowski Prospect. The expanded space at this intersection, south to connect to the the reception building of the Moscow railway station and north of the hotel was built in 1857 Oktjabrskaja is, eponymous to the Metro Station Ploshchad Vosstania also, which literally means "place of the uprising " means. This name was given to the court in 1918, he was chosen in memory of popular protests during the February Revolution of 1917, which had taken place among others in this space. Before the renaming was the place Snamenskaja Ploshchad, literally "place of the Mother of God from the characters ' church. The latter stood at the exact spot where is now the northern entrance building of the subway station up to her demolition of the end of the 1930s.

Unlike most other metro stations in Saint Petersburg Ploshchad Vosstania features except the transition to Majakovskaya Metro Station via two ( instead of one ) separate access from the street. On the one hand there is the northern entrance via the Vestibülgebäude on the north side of the square. This building was erected in 1955 as at that time the only access to the Metro Station. It provides a rounded classical embossed pavilion with lateral projections and on top of it with a supplemented by decorative lace rotunda dar. Due to its outline, the distance to the predecessor by the way - the torn church - remembers the pavilion is called sometimes popularly known as " cake ". Inside the vestibule is the main hall of the subway station, you come from where after passing through the ticket barriers via escalators to the platform at its northern end.

The second account was opened only in 1960 and follows on directly to the reception building of the Moscow railway station. Thus, there is the possibility of switching over between the subway station and the remote and local transport without the prior crossing of Nevsky Prospect. Again, take escalators between the main hall and the platform. In addition, located in the southern vestibule at the same time the eastern entrance of the station Majakovskaya.

Platform

The architectural focus of the subway station makes its platform hall, which was built in the Soviet underground building traditions as a broad tripartite island platform. As with all Petersburg metro stations of the first phase and to them as a model underlying the Moscow Metro postwar underground stations here was the concourse very beautifully for an individual project ( in this case, under the direction of architect Boris Schurawljow, Igor Fomin and Wera Gankewitsch ) executed. Here the dominant visual form massive pylons that separate the center of the hall in two rows of the waiting and track areas of both directions of travel. The base of the pylons are covered with red marble, the floor, consistent with these with red granite slabs. The edges of the opposing pylons are connected via the semi-circular vault of the hall by arcade -like ornament compositions with each other, built with equal will alternate with arched lights. Above the base, the pylons are decorated on its side facing the middle hall with circular abundant ornamental grilles of the ventilation tube.

In the middle of the hall between the North and the South Exit the two pylon series are briefly interrupted by an intermediate hall, in the amount of the transition to the station Majakovskaya begins. From here several escalators lead a few meters upwards and end almost immediately in the station hall of the Majakovskaya. The pylons between these escalators and those of the southern output are also decorated with bas-reliefs, in reference to the name of the station or of the place have their compositions include numerous events in the wake of the Russian Revolution on the topic. On display is, among others, a representation of Lenin, in a speech at the Tauride Palace and the cruiser Aurora in his shot signal the start of the fighting during the October Revolution.

The two walls above the tracks are decorated with red marble and a number of decorative bronze rectangular grids which are decorated with floral ornaments and the year " 1955". The lighting comes here, unlike in the central hall of chandeliers on the ceiling.