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
Depth ≈57 m (187 ft)
History
Opened 30 April 1956
Services
Preceding station   St Petersburg Metro   Following station
toward Devyatkino
Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line
Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line
Transfer at: Zvenigorodskaya
toward Shushary

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

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", referring to the connecting Vitebsky railway station.

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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