Pushkinskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)

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.

Pushkinskaya
Saint Petersburg Metro station
Station Hall
General information
Location	Admiralteysky District Saint Petersburg Russia
Coordinates	59°55′14.48″N 30°19′46.81″E
Operated by	Saint Petersburg Metro
Line(s)	Kirovsko–Vyborgskaya Line
Platforms	1 (Island platform)
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Depth	≈57 m (187 ft)
History
Opened	30 April 1956
Electrified	Third rail
Services
Preceding station Saint Petersburg Metro Following station Vladimirskaya towards Devyatkino Line 1 Tekhnologichesky Institut towards Prospekt Veteranov Sadovaya towards Komendantsky Prospekt Line 5 transfer at Zvenigorodskaya Obvodny Kanal towards Shushary
Route map Legend 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 This diagram: view talk edit

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.