Avtovo (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Avtovo
Saint Petersburg Metro station
Station Hall
Coordinates 59°52′02.37″N 30°15′40.87″E / 59.8673250°N 30.2613528°E / 59.8673250; 30.2613528Coordinates: 59°52′02.37″N 30°15′40.87″E / 59.8673250°N 30.2613528°E / 59.8673250; 30.2613528
Owned by Saint Petersburg Metro
Line(s) Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line
Platforms Island platform
Tracks 2
Construction
Structure type Underground
Depth 12 m (39 ft)
History
Opened November 15, 1955
Services
Preceding station   St Petersburg Metro   Following station
toward Devyatkino
Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line

Depot 4 "Severnoye"
Devyatkino
 Grazhdansky Prospekt
Murinskiy Ruchei
 Akademicheskaya
 Politekhnicheskaya
 Ploschad Muzhestva
 Lesnaya
 Vyborgskaya
 Ploshchad Lenina
Neva River
 Chernyshevskaya
 Ploshchad Vosstaniya Transfer to M3 Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line at Mayakovskaya.
 Vladimirskaya Transfer to M4 Pravoberezhnaya Line at Dostoevskaya.
 Pushkinskaya Transfer to M5 Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line at Zvenigorodskaya.
 Tekhnologichesky Institut Transfer to M2 Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line via cross-platform interchange.
Obvodny Kanal
 Baltiyskaya
Narvskaya
 Kirovsky Zavod
 Avtovo
Krasnenkaya River
Depot 1 "Avtovo"
Depot 2 "Dachnoye"
Dachnoye
 Leninsky Prospekt
 Prospekt Veteranov

Avtovo (Russian: А́втово) is a station on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro.[1] Designed by architect Yevgenii Levinson, it opened as part of the first Leningrad Metro line on November 15, 1955.[2] In 2014, The Guardian included it on the list of 12 most beautiful metro stations in the world .

Avtovo's unique and highly ornate design features columns faced with ornamental glass manufactured at the Lomonosov factory.[3] Although the original plan envisaged using glass on all of the columns in the station, white marble was substituted on some due to time constraints. This marble was supposed to be temporary, but it has never been replaced. The walls are faced with white marble and adorned on the north side by a row of ornamental ventilation grilles. At the end of the platform a mosaic by V.A. Voronetskiy and A.K. Sokolov commemorates the Leningrad Blockade (1941-1944) during the Second World War.

Unlike the other stations on the first line, Avtovo is a shallow-level station, constructed using the cut and cover method. It belongs to the shallow column class of underground stations.

Avtovo has as its entrance vestibule a large Neoclassical building with a domed cupola, located on the east side of Prospekt Stachek.

Avtovo entrance vestibule

References

  1. ↑ https://structurae.net/structures/avtovo-metro-station
  2. ↑ http://gbtimes.com/world/st-petersburg-subway-station-recognized-one-worlds-most-beautiful
  3. ↑ http://gbtimes.com/world/st-petersburg-subway-station-recognized-one-worlds-most-beautiful
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