The St. Petersburg metro, according to the admissions of many residents and visitors of the city, looks like a huge underground palace. The very first laid line of the St. Petersburg metro is Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya, or “red”, the branch on which the city’s only existing cross-platform hub is located - the Technological Institute metro station. What makes Tekhnolazh interesting, what are its history and design features?
History of the Technological Institute Station
The first station hall was opened in 1955 as a regular station with one platform. "Technolazhka" was a deep station pillar station. However, for 61 years, its design has not changed. The only radical change occurred in April 1961. On that day, the opening of the Technological Institute-2 metro station, to which the Moscow-Petrograd line tracks were subsequently connected. Thus, a cross-platform landing site was created, which, however, did not immediately work at full strength - only two years after the opening, after the launch of the second stage of the “blue” branch to the Petrogradskaya station.
Design of the Technological Institute station
Achievements of Russian and Soviet science is the main and only topic that was chosen to decorate the interior of the Technological Institute metro station. St. Petersburg, as a cultural capital, seems to pay tribute to the scientists of the USSR and their most important discoveries. Column hall designed by architects A.K. Andreev and A.M. Sokolov, made of Ural marble and decorated with bas-reliefs depicting prominent scientists of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Among them, you can see the profiles of Ankylosing spondylitis, Mechnikov, Pirogov, Lobachevsky and other prominent scientists and researchers. In the second hall, each column tells about the achievements of science of the USSR. Among them are dates, the launch of the first nuclear power plant, the first space flight and even the approval of the country's electrification plan.
Modern life of the Technological Institute metro station
At the moment, the total average passenger flow of Tekhnolazhka is 1 million 428 thousand 968 people per month. The station closes at 0 hours 28 minutes Moscow time, and opens its doors to enter at 5 hours and 40 minutes. In all the halls of the Technological Institute, mobile operators MTS, Megafon, Beeline, Tele2 and Yota accept. Nearby are two well-known engineering universities - the Technological Institute (the metro station was named in his honor) and the BSTU Voenmekh. Also not far from Tekhnolazhka is the Trinity Cathedral, which is certainly worth seeing and visiting the guests of the cultural capital.
