Pushkinskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Coordinates: 59°55′14.48″N 30°19′46.81″E / 59.9206889°N 30.3296694°E / 59.9206889; 30.3296694
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Pushkinskaya
Saint Petersburg Metro station
Station Hall
General information
Coordinates59°55′14.48″N 30°19′46.81″E / 59.9206889°N 30.3296694°E / 59.9206889; 30.3296694
Owned bySaint Petersburg Metro
Line(s)Line 1 (Saint Petersburg Metro) Kirovsko–Vyborgskaya Line
PlatformsIsland platform
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
DepthTemplate:Unit length
History
Opened30 April 1956
Services
Preceding station   StPetersburg Metro   Following station
Template:STPETERSBURGMETRO lines
Template:STPETERSBURGMETRO lines

Depot 4 Severnoye
Devyatkino—Lavriki railroad
Devyatkino
Grazhdansky Prospekt
headshunt
Akademicheskaya
future line branching
Politekhnicheskaya
Ploschad Muzhestva
eroded tunnels
Lesnaya
Vyborgskaya
headshunts
Ploshchad Lenina
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

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.