Nevsky Prospekt (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Nevsky Prospekt (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Nevsky Prospekt
Spb metro logo.svg Saint Petersburg Metro station
Metro SPB Line2 Nevsky.jpg
Station Hall
Station statistics
Coordinates 59°56′06″N 30°19′42″E / 59.935°N 30.32833°E / 59.935; 30.32833Coordinates: 59°56′06″N 30°19′42″E / 59.935°N 30.32833°E / 59.935; 30.32833
Lines Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line
Structure Underground
Platforms Island platform
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened 1963-07-01
Owned by Saint Petersburg Metro
Services
Preceding station   StPetersburg Metro   Following station
toward Parnas
Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line
Sennaya Ploshchad
toward Kupchino
Vasileostrovskaya
toward Primorskaya
Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line
Transfer at: Gostiny Dvor
toward Rybatskoye
[v · d · e]Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line
Legend
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Depot 6 "Vyborgskoe"
Urban station on track
Parnas
Urban station on track
Prospekt Prosvescheniya
Urban station on track
Ozerki
Urban station on track
Udelnaya
Urban station on track
Pionerskaya
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Chornaya Rechka
Urban station on track
Chornaya Rechka
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Bolshaya Nevka
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Karpovka
Urban station on track
Petrogradskaya
Urban station on track
Gorkovskaya
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Neva River
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Moyka
Urban station on track + Hub
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Nevsky Prospekt  ↔  Gostiny Dvor
Urban straight track
Urban station on track + Hub
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Sennaya Ploshchad ↔ Sadovaya  ↔ Spasskaya
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Fontanka River
Right side of urban cross-platform interchange Left side of cross-platform interchange
Tekhnologichesky Institut  ↔  Tekhnologichesky Institut
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Obvodny Kanal
Urban station on track
Frunzenskaya
Urban station on track
Moskovskiye Vorota
Urban station on track
Elektrosila
Urban station on track
Park Pobedy
Urban station on track
Moskovskaya
Urban station on track
Zvyozdnaya
Urban station on track
Kupchino
Urban non-passenger end station
Depot 3 "Moskovskoye"
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Nevsky Prospekt (Russian: Не́вский проспе́кт) is a station on the Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro.

The station was built on July 1, 1963. While the station inself was designed by Mayofis and Maximov, the interior was designed Getskin, Shuvalova and Andreyev. The station has two sets of exits on Mihailovskya Street.

The station is linked to Gostiny Dvor via a transfer corridor that descends to the middle of the platform and a set of escalators at the plantform's northern end.

Nevsky Prospect is considered one of the most congested stations in the entire Saint Petersburg Metro.[1][2]

Nevsky Prospekt is one of the more exotic locations used in Mornington Crescent, a game played in the BBC Radio 4 show "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue".

Sources

  1. ^ Congestion levels among various sections of St. Petersburg subway as of 2004 (Morning Rush Hours)
  2. ^ Congestion levels among various sections of St. Petersburg subway as of 2004 (Evening Rush Hours)