Pushkinskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Pushkinskaya
Saint Petersburg Metro station

Station Hall
Coordinates 59°55′14.48″N 30°19′46.81″E / 59.9206889°N 30.3296694°E / 59.9206889; 30.3296694Coordinates: 59°55′14.48″N 30°19′46.81″E / 59.9206889°N 30.3296694°E / 59.9206889; 30.3296694
Owned by Saint Petersburg Metro
Line(s) Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line
Platforms Island platform
Tracks 2
Construction
Structure type Underground
Depth57 m (187 ft)
History
Opened 30 April 1956
Services
Preceding station   StPetersburg Metro   Following station
toward Devyatkino
Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line
Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line
Transfer at: Zvenigorodskaya
Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line
Legend
Depot 4 "Severnoye"

Devyatkino
Grazhdansky Prospekt
Murinskiy Ruchei
Akademicheskaya
Politekhnicheskaya
Ploschad Muzhestva
Lesnaya
Vyborgskaya
Ploshchad Lenina
Neva River
Chernyshevskaya
Ploshchad Vosstaniya
Vladimirskaya
Pushkinskaya
Tekhnologichesky Institut
Obvodny Kanal
Baltiyskaya
Narvskaya
Kirovsky Zavod
Avtovo
Krasnenkaya River

Depot 1 "Avtovo"
Depot 2 "Dachnoye"
Dachnoye
Leninsky Prospekt
Prospekt Veteranov

Pushkinskaya (Russian: Пу́шкинская) is a station of the Saint Petersburg Metro. It first opened on 30 April 1956, under the original name of "Vitebskiy vokzal".

There is a monument in the station dedicated to the poet Alexander Pushkin sculpted by Mikhail Anikushin. This station was the first USSR metro station with memorial located under the ground.

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