Leninsky Prospekt (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Leninsky Prospekt Saint Petersburg Metro station
Station Hall
Station statistics
Coordinates	59°51′07″N 30°16′06″E
Lines	Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line
Structure	Underground
Depth	≈8 m (26 ft)
Platforms	Island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	October 5, 1977
Owned by	Saint Petersburg Metro
Services
Preceding station   StPetersburg Metro   Following station Avtovo toward Devyatkino Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line Prospekt Veteranov Terminus

Leninsky Prospekt (Russian: Ле́нинский проспе́кт) is a station on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro, located between Avtovo and Prospekt Veteranov.

The station was opened on September 29, 1977 in the section between Avtovo and Prospekt Veteranov, replacing the temporary surface station Dachnoye. It is named for its location along the street of the same name.

There is no above-ground pavilion; entrance to the station is provided through underground pedestrian crossings, with exits onto Leninsky Prospekt and Bulvar Novatorov. Because of the station's shallow depth, neither exit has escalators.

Leninsky Prospekt is a shallow column station with a depth of 8m. The underground hall was constructed as a project of the architects A. S. Getskin and Ye. I. Val and the engineer A. N. Yakovlev. The design of the station echoes Lenin's Mausoleum. The platforms and the columns, which widen at the top, are faced with red Karelian granite. Unpolished white marble is used to decorate the walls.

Until the early 1990s the station was unique in its quadruple commemoration of the name of Lenin in its friezes: "V. I. Lenin Metro of Leningrad, order of Lenin. Leninsky Prospekt Station."

See also

• Leninsky Prospekt (Moscow metro)

External links

• (Russian) Description of the station on Metrowalks.ru
• (Russian) Description of the station on Kommet.spb.ru