Admir alteyskaya metro station in St. Petersburg

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:45

The metro station "Admir alteyskaya" is a fairly young station in St. Petersburg. However, its important location and interesting decoration put it among the most popular and famous.

History of Creation

The creation of the St. Petersburg metro station "Admir alteyskaya" dates back to 2012. However, the original date of its commissioning was planned fourteen years earlier. The history of construction is associated with a number of problems, the main of which were: the irregularity of funding, the complexity of engineering calculations due to the proximity to the Neva, as well as the impossibility of quickly resolving the issue of resettlement of the house, on the first floor of which its upper vestibule was to be located.

As a result, the construction was completed, and the metro station "Admir alteiskaya" of St. Petersburg very quickly became one of the most passable stations in the city. Since its opening took place on January 2, the event was a long-awaited New Year's gift.

Place in the subway system

St. Petersburg metro station "Admir alteyskaya" is included in the fifth,purple, a branch that connected "Komendantsky Prospekt" and "Volkovskaya", and is adjacent to such a large transfer hub as "Sadovaya - Spasskaya - Sennaya". You can get through it to the "Admir alteyskaya" from the orange and blue branches. To get to "Admir alteyskaya" from the red line, you need to change at another interchange node: "Pushkinskaya" - "Zvenigorodskaya". The most inconvenient route to "Admir alteyskaya" is from the green line. To get to this station, you need to make at least two transfers. To do this, you can use the following interchange nodes: "Alexander Nevsky Square-1" - "Alexander Nevsky Square - 2" - "Sadovaya - Spasskaya - Sennaya".

Local Benefits

The metro station "Admir alteyskaya" is one of those that connect citizens with the very heart of St. Petersburg. Its main exit is on Malaya Morskaya Street, which overlooks Nevsky Prospekt not far from the Arch of the General Staff, Palace Square and the Hermitage. If you go along Nevsky to the left, you can see the famous Admir alty, and a little to the left of it - Senate Square.

Very close to the Neva. On the Palace Bridge, you can easily reach one of the most inaccessible places in the city earlier - the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island and the University Embankment, where the Kunstkamera, the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Arts, the Building of 12 Collegia, the Stock Exchange and the Rostral Columns, the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Otto, Zoological Museum and Museumsoil science in the buildings of former warehouses. And if you walk along Nevsky Prospekt to the right, then, after crossing the Police (former Green) bridge across the Moika, you can get acquainted with the Stroganov Palace.

Decorative decorations

"Admir alteyskaya" - a deep station. The depth of the metro station "Admir alteyskaya" exceeds eighty meters. To get out of the lower lobby to the surface, you need to go up on two escalators. Traveling through the galleries of "Admir alteiskaya" is also a very pleasant walk, because the interiors of the station are a mini-museum of mosaic art on the theme of maritime history and the glory of Russia.

Mosaic medallions with portraits of famous commanders of the Russian fleet are placed between the pillars of the lower vestibule. They are made in the form of high reliefs. Among the naval commanders are Admiral General Apraksin, admirals: Ushakov, Bellingshausen, Grigorovich, Makarov, Nakhimov.

One of the important semantic panels of the Admir alteiskaya metro station - "Foundation of the Admir alty", the other two - "Neva" and "Neptune" - allegorically glorify the sea and river elements, with which St. Petersburg is connected by nature itself.

"Foundation of the Admir alty" is located in the end wall of the lower vestibule. In the foreground we see Peter I and Admiral Cornelius Kruys at work on the drawings of the Admir alty Shipyard Fortress. Naval officers are standing nearby, the symbol of the Russian navy - St. Andrew's flag is proudly fluttering on the right, in the background on the left- a military sailing ship, which will later leave the stocks of the new shipyard. In the background - the Neva, the blue sky and the symbol of freedom - soaring seagulls.

Above the arch of the passage from the first escalator to the second, there is a small mosaic canvas depicting the god of the seas Neptune, rushing towards the audience in his chariot, which is harnessed by hippocampus sea horses. This image reminds us of a fragment of a sculptural composition on one of the Stock Exchange attics.

A rectangular, almost square panel between the escalators on the wall depicts the Neva seated on a throne, surrounded by a sea anchor, a cannon, cannonballs scattered over the steps, a compass, a globe, a square and a ruler, a scroll with a map. Ahead - a mascaron in the form of a lion's muzzle with a mooring ring in its mouth - a symbol of the port city. Neva holds an oar in her hand. In the background is a frigate leaving for sea voyage with raised sails and the St. Andrew's flag flying at the stern. The image of the Neva resembles a figure from the pedestal of one of the Rostral columns.

The mosaic panel of the upper vestibule refers us to the engravings of Alexei Zubov. It depicts the Admir alty in all its grandeur with sailboats launched from its stocks. Between the frigates scurry about small rowing warships. St. Andrew's flags fly on most ships.