The life of the St. Petersburg metro began in the years following the restoration of the city after the blockade. The gradually developing infrastructure of the St. Petersburg-Leningrad subway continues to improve even now, in the 21st century. One of the newest is the Proletarskaya metro station in St. Petersburg.
The infrastructure of the St. Petersburg underground road today
Now the network of the St. Petersburg subway has five branches: Moscow-Petrograd, Kirov-Vyborg, Frunze-Primorsky, Nevsky-Vasileostrovskaya, Right Bank. A new line is being developed with the conditional name South-West. A total of 58 stations operate.
The subway system covers almost all parts and areas of the Northern capital. With the construction of the brown branch, 3 more additional stations will be added. And the city will be connected by an underground road to remote areas, such as Shushary, Borovaya, Pushkin.
The history of the formation of the infrastructure of the St. Petersburg metro
The history of St. Petersburg metro began when it was still Leningrad, namely in 1941, when the project began, but was not completed in connection with the outbreak of World War II. Work continued in the post-war period at an accelerated pace, and by the end of the 1950s. A section of the Kirov-Vyborg branch was opened. The very first station to receive its passengers was Vosstaniya Square (lobby No. 1, facing Uprising Street).
In the summer of 1963 the Moscow-Petrograd line was mastered, in the autumn of 1967 - the Nevsky-Vasileostrovskaya line. The right-bank line began to function only after almost twenty years. Up to this point, sections of already opened lines were lengthened, their modernization was carried out. The latter at the moment, the Frunze-Primorsky branch, which was previously part of the Right-Bank, began to function as an independent by 1991.
Place "Proletarskaya" in the system of St. Petersburg subway
We see in the diagram: St. Petersburg metro station "Proletarskaya" is located in the chain of the Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya line and is located between the "Lomonosovskaya" and "Obukhovo". The main interchange nodes leading to the Proletarskaya: from the orange branch - “Alexander Nevsky Square”, from the red branch - “Uprising Square”, from the blue branch - “Nevsky Prospect”.
History of St. Petersburg metro station
"Proletarian" was opened for visitors in 1981. Its lobby is not too far from the banks of the Neva, so Proletarskaya is one of the deepest in the St. Petersburg subway. When developing the project, advanced technologies of the Soviet era were used - electronic computers (computers).
The station is located in the historical area of the former Nevskaya Zastava. In this industrial area, at the beginning of the 20th century - the most working outskirts of all, it was very turbulent: rallies, rallies, strikes. Therefore, the district enjoyed special attention from the leader of the Russian proletariat Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and his wife Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya.
Station decoration
According to the tradition of the St. Petersburg metro, a lot of attention was paid to the decorative decoration of the lower lobby of the station. The walls are faced with natural stone slabs of pinkish-white and red hues. Massive pylons rectangular in plan were similarly processed, supporting the ceilings and forming rectangular arcades along the railway tracks.
The green color-like inserts above the inter-support openings, which were previously supposed to be made also in red, serve as a bright color dominant. The glossy floor of the lobby is also composed of rectangular slabs of white, pink and red colors and made of stone.
At the end of the lobby is a decorative marble wall with a metal sickle and hammer, the symbolism of the Soviet period, personifying the union of workers and peasants - the working people, the proletariat. This symbolism reflects the essence of the name of the station.
The upper lobby is very reminiscent of the interior decoration, but it has its own zest. It is located on a hill in the middle of a green square in the form of a pavilion and park building made of glass escalator hall and several tiers of technical services surrounding it, made in stone - light Saaremian dolomite and dark red granite. The interior of the lobby is additionally decorated with glass stained-glass windows in metal frames.
