Akademicheskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Akademicheskaya
Saint Petersburg Metro station
Station Hall
General information
Location	Kalininsky District Saint Petersburg Russia
Coordinates	60°0′45.97″N 30°23′45.66″E
Owned by	Saint Petersburg Metro
Line(s)	Kirovsko–Vyborgskaya Line
Platforms	Island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Depth	64 meters (210 feet)
Bicycle facilities	yes
History
Opened	1975-12-31
Closed	2018 .07.30 - 2019.06.30
Electrified	825 v DC by bottom third rail
Services
Preceding station   St Petersburg Metro   Following station Template:STPETERSBURGMETRO stations toward Template:STPETERSBURGMETRO stations Template:STPETERSBURGMETRO lines Template:STPETERSBURGMETRO stations toward Template:STPETERSBURGMETRO stations
Route map Depot 4 Severnoye Devyatkino—Lavriki railroad Devyatkino A 118 St. Petersburg Ring Road Grazhdansky Prospekt headshunt Akademicheskaya future line branching Politekhnicheskaya Ploschad Muzhestva eroded tunnels Lesnaya Vyborgskaya headshunts Ploshchad Lenina Neva Chernyshevskaya service siding to line 2 Ploshchad Vosstaniya Vladimirskaya Pushkinskaya to track 1 of line 2 Tekhnologichesky Institut to track 2 of line 1 Baltiyskaya Narvskaya headshunts  ЗСД  Western High- Speed Diameter Kirovsky Zavod Avtovo Dachnoye Depot Avtovo Depot Dachnoye (defunct) Leninsky Prospekt Prospekt Veteranov headshunts

Akademicheskaya (Russian: Академи́ческая) is a station of the Saint Petersburg Metro. It opened on 31 December 1975. The station is about 64 metres (210 ft) under the ground.

Surface facilities

The entrance lobby of the station is located on the corner of Civil Avenue (Rus:Гражданский проспект) and Avenue of Science (Rus:Проспект Науки) . The frieze inside the ground lobby is made of polished red-pink granite, the floor is made of gray granite, the walls of the cash room are faced with white marble.

Underground structure

"Academic" - column station of deep Foundation (depth ≈ 64 m). The theme of the underground hall is devoted to Soviet science.

«Теперь все чудеса техники и завоевания культуры станут общенародным достоянием, и отныне никогда человеческий ум и гений не будут обращены в средства насилия»

In the end wall of the hall there is an inscription with the words of Lenin:

<<Now all the wonders of technology and the conquest of culture will become public property, and from now on never the human mind and genius will not be turned into a means of violence>>