St. Petersburg metro, according to many residents and guests of the city, looks like a huge underground palace. The very first laid down line of the St. Petersburg metro is the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya, or “red”, branch, on which the only operating cross-platform hub of the city is located - the Tekhnologichesky Institute metro station. What is interesting about Tekhnolozhka, what are its history and design features?
History of the Technological Institute Station
The station's first hall was opened in 1955 as a regular station with one platform. "Technolozhka" was a deep column station. However, for 61 years its design has not changed. The only cardinal change occurred in April 1961. On that day, the opening of the Tekhnologichesky Institut-2 metro station took place, to which the tracks of the Moscow-Petrogradskaya line were subsequently connected. Thus, a cross-platform landing node was created, which, however, did not immediately work in full force - only after twoyears after the opening, following the launch of the second stage of the "blue" line to the station "Petrogradskaya".
Decoration of the station "Technological Institute"
Achievements of Russian and Soviet science is the main and only theme that was chosen for the interior design of the Tekhnologicheskiy Institut metro station. St. Petersburg, being the 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 Bekhterev, Mechnikov, Pirogov, Lobachevsky and other prominent scientists and researchers. In the second hall, each column tells about the achievements of science in the USSR. Among them are the dates of 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 traffic of Tekhnolozhka is 1 million 428 thousand 968 people per month. The station closes at 0:28 Moscow time, and opens its doors for entry at 5:40. All halls of the Technological Institute receive mobile operators MTS, Megafon, Beeline, Tele2 and Yota. Nearby are two well-known engineering universities - "TechnologicalInstitute" (the metro station was named after him) and BSTU "Voenmekh". Also not far from Tekhnolozhka is the Trinity Cathedral, which is definitely worth seeing and visiting for guests of the cultural capital.
Interesting facts about the Technological Institute station
- Each modern metro station has television installations to view the escalators and platforms. The first such system was installed in Tekhnolozhka in 1976.
- The shortest section of the St. Petersburg metro is the path between the metro stations "Technological Institute" and "Pushkinskaya". It is only 780 meters. However, you can easily and quickly get from one stop to another on foot on the ground.
- Technological Institute is the first station to have a lobby built and towers over a government highway. Stalin Avenue, now Moscow, has several entrances to the subway. The blue line, starting from Moskovskaya and ending with Technological Institute, runs along one of the largest highways in St. Petersburg.
- In the first six years of the life of the station, there were images of Stalin and Engels among the bas-reliefs, but they were removed during the formation of the node and the construction of transitions. Together with them, the portraits of A. E. Favorsky and A. N. Krylov. Also, since 1995, it has ceased to be updated, and subsequently the decorative scheme of the lines of the St. Petersburg metro was removed.
