Nevsky Prospekt (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Nevsky Prospekt (Russian Невский проспект ) is an underground station of the Metro St Petersburg on the line 2 and an important underground transfer hubs in the center of St. Petersburg.

The underground station, which was named after the street Nevsky Prospekt, under which he was invested in 63 meters depth, 2 northbound went on July 1, 1963 at the first extension of the line into operation.

General Description

The metro station is located in the area of Nevsky Prospect, where this crosses the Griboyedov Canal. There are also very close to the Kazan Cathedral, the shopping arcade, Gostiny Dvor, the house with the deli Jelissejew and many other historical sites.

From the road you can reach the station via two separate entrances. The western access is built into the four-story late-classical house 30 on the north side of the Nevsky Prospect at its intersection with the shore of the Griboyedov Canal. This access was built as a common access to both the Nevsky Prospekt Metro Station as well as to Gostiny Dvor line 3, which is connected to the station Nevsky Prospekt by a direct transition. Even the western entrance was only completed in 1967, just before the start of the Gostiny Dvor. From the main hall, which occupies part of the ground floor of the house 30, is accessed via the escalators to the lower distribution level and from there to the two metro stations. The other access to the subway station, which was opened to coincide with the completion of the selfsame only, not an above-ground vestibule, but from a branched pedestrian underpass under the Nevsky Prospekt in the amount of Gostiny Dvor. Here you reach the subway station on a long escalator from the ticket hall and a short flight of steps between the lower intermediate level and the platform.

Architecture

The station was the architectural basic structure - a series supported by pylon station hall - though from 1955 opened Metro stations ajar, but far less decorated elaborately. The slightly bent toward the vault pylons have, as well as the outer walls and the vaulted ceiling, a simple white paint on; the only original detail in the design of the platform hall are the polished Aluminiumgesimse to the pylons. The exterior walls on the two track beds, disguised until 2006 with glass tiles, now adorn themselves with newer dark red tiles. The floor covering is executed in gray granite without pattern.

Special

The fact that the metro station Nevsky Prospekt heard as interchange station to the busiest stations of the St. Petersburg metro because of its central location and its importance, did get a separate management of passenger flows in the transition between the two subway stations necessary. Passengers who need to move from line 2 to line 3 must run to the north end of the platform hall and from there to the right over short escalators to Gostiny Dvor, with the top left escalators just there the metro station Nevsky Prospekt with its western vestibule at the Griboyedov Canal connect. A different path is provided for those passengers who want reversed from line 3 to line 2. These enter via a transition tunnel and subsequent steps above the tracks in the central region of the Nevsky Prospekt - platform. The automatic access barriers that are erected there, only let passengers coming from Gostiny Dvor, which will ensure that and alighting only use of the line 2 to line 3 the corresponding separate path and the opposite passenger flows do not get in the way.

Another feature of the U -Bahn station is to be a pedestrian underpass under the Nevsky Prospekt integrated access. The practice to build subway entrances to pedestrian tunnels, is indeed about in Moscow usual, in St. Petersburg, however, where there ever are few underground pedestrian crossings, an absolute exception. The underpass under the Nevsky Prospekt at the time was also the first of its kind in what was then Leningrad.