The year Ploshchad Vosstaniya opened.
I’m taking you to Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station this week, but unlike all the others I’ve featured so far, this one is NOT in Moscow.
I don’t know why I wasn’t expecting incredible metro stations in St. Petersburg, but this one blew me away. Like a lot of Moscow’s stations, Ploshchad Vossitaniya is a pylon station. It is very deep underground, and as one of St. Petersburg’s original metro stations, it opened on Nov. 15th, 1955. This is commemorated on grills that you can see while waiting for a train to pull in.
Ploshchad Vosstaniya translates to Uprising Square, so I shouldn’t have been surprised to see Lenin glorified in the station’s artwork.
It was the lit arches took my breath away and made me feel like I was in Moscow. What do you think? ↓
I love looking down this platform.
Lenin inspiring revolutionaries.
Lenin inciting followers to rebel again.
Pondering life on his own.
Have a look at these two stations in Moscow for more Lenin memorabilia:
1) Komsomolskaya
2) Baumanskaya
Can you think of a single figure who ought to be immortalized throughout your country
the way Lenin is in Russia?
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