Lanskaya
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Lanskaya platform is a railway station
Train station
A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...
located in St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
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Lanskaya is commuter passenger station, its platforms are located on a high embankment
Embankment (transportation)
To keep a road or railway line straight or flat, and where the comparative cost or practicality of alternate solutions is prohibitive, the land over which the road or rail line will travel is built up to form an embankment. An embankment is therefore in some sense the opposite of a cutting, and...
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The platforms lie between Serdobolskaya street and Bolshoi Sampsonievsky street, passing over both by bridge.
Platform of a direction from Saint Petersburg bent, island (but the left-hand side is used only).
Opposite to a platform there is Lanskaya electric substation
Lanskaya electric substation
The substation Lansky is the first electrical substation constructed on the Finlyandsky Rail direct of Saint Peterburg, Russia.It is located within Lanskaya station...
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The input on it is carried out from under the bridge, the two-mid-flight ladder blocked by the high arch barrel
Barrel vault
A barrel vault, also known as a tunnel vault or a wagon vault, is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve along a given distance. The curves are typically circular in shape, lending a semi-cylindrical appearance to the total design...
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The direction platform to Saint Petersburg a straight line, lateral, an input on it is carried out from Serdobolskaya street and from the Bolshoy Sampsonevsky prospect.
A high speed rail line between Saint Petersburg (Finlyandsky Rail Terminal) and Helsinki (see Karelian Trains
Karelian Trains
Oy Karelian Trains Ltd is a joint venture agreed on 23 November 2006 between Russian Railways and VR Group to facilitate the operation of international express passenger rail services between Helsinki, Finland and Saint Petersburg, Russia. Karelian Trains is registered in Helsinki, VR and RZhD...
) will pass through the station.
History
The first wooden station building was constructed in 1869 by architect Wolmar Westling.The first train has solemnly proceeded through it on .
It has been located a little in the heart of building and before it there was a place for transport.
The facilities is located to the address 3, Serdobolskaya street.
Through movement on all extent of a line between two capitals was opened personally by emperor Alexander II
Alexander II of Russia
Alexander II , also known as Alexander the Liberator was the Emperor of the Russian Empire from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881...
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The station building was rebuilt in stone in 1910
1910 in rail transport
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by architect Bruno Granholm
Bruno Granholm
Bruno Ferdinand Granholm was a Finnish architect. He served as the chief architect of Rautatiehallitus between 1892 and 1926...
as a four-storeyed building, which was designed in the rational branch of the “new style” of architecture at the beginning of the 20th century; an architectural style also known as a Romantic nationalism
Romantic nationalism
Romantic nationalism is the form of nationalism in which the state derives its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it governs...
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The annexe leant to a high railway embankment, it looks extremely ascetically. According to architectural critics, its expressiveness is obtained by strict geometry of volumes, and presents a picturesque-asymmetric silhouette and a rhythm of window.
The window openings are whimsically scattered on the exterior surface of the walls, and reflect the internal structure of the building.
The station during the Soviet period
The Saint Petersburg Finlyandsky-Vyborg line and Saint Petersburg Finlyandsky-Beloostrov through Sestroretsk line continued be worked by steam power after the revolution up to World War IIWorld War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
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The first work on electrification at this site began in 1950
1950 in rail transport
-January events:* January 26 - To provide an all-India rail route to Assam following the Partition of India, the Northeast Frontier Railway opens to passengers a new line between Kishanganj and Fakiragram on which construction commenced only on January 26, 1948; also, Chittaranjan Locomotive...
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In the early 1950s, the Lanskaya electric substation was built behind the station.
Electrification of the railway began in the direction of Leningrad to Zelenogorsk
Zelenogorsk
Zelenogorsk may refer to one of the following:*Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, a town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia*Zelenogorsk, Saint Petersburg, a municipal town in Russia under jurisdiction of Saint Petersburg...
in 1951. (now it is a part of Saint Petersburg Finlyandsky-Vyborg line)
At station new platforms have been constructed and the length of trains has increased.
The track in the direction of Finlyandsky Rail Terminal and Udelnaya station has also been electrified.
On 4 August, 1951
1951 in rail transport
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at 1 hour and thirty minutes after midnight the electric power was switched on to the network of the first electrified line in the Karelian Isthmus
Karelian Isthmus
The Karelian Isthmus is the approximately 45–110 km wide stretch of land, situated between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia, to the north of the River Neva . Its northwestern boundary is the relatively narrow area between the Bay of Vyborg and Lake Ladoga...
area between Leningrad and Zelenogorsk
Zelenogorsk
Zelenogorsk may refer to one of the following:*Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, a town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia*Zelenogorsk, Saint Petersburg, a municipal town in Russia under jurisdiction of Saint Petersburg...
. At 1 hour 50 minutes a trial trip of the first electric train set off en-route in the direction of Arsenyev N. A.
The first passengers travelled on the electric-train during the day, conducted by train driver-instructor Romanov A. N.
Regular services also started on the same day.
In the Next year the Lansky-Sestroretsk-Beloostrov line (now it is named Saint Petersburg Finlyandsky-Beloostrov through Sestroretsk line) was electrified.
On the day of 1 June 1952 the first trial of an electric train went through Lanskaya and Sestroretsk to Beloostrov, and on the same day, from the morning onwards regular services began.
The time of electrification of the line connecting Lanskaya to Кushelevka is not known, but as of 2000 it too was electrified, as well as all tracks at the station.
Probably, in 1951 at station there was a railway failure.
The probability of this event is indirectly confirmed by the law edition the same year.
Station at the time of new Russia
The station underwent major repairs in 2003.Work was done on building of station and on a platform.
The enormous wood furnace which was in a corner of a waiting hall for almost a century was dismantled at this time.
Landmarks near to Lanskaya station
- Nearby the station is Lenin's museum. The museum was mentioned in the computer game "Revolutionary quest" (2004).
- In January, 1941 building, began of the Saint Petersburg MetroSaint Petersburg MetroThe Saint Petersburg Metro is the underground railway system in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It has been open since November 15, 1955.Formerly known as the V.I...
. Somewhere around the Lansky railway station it was planned to construct a terminal station for the Line 1 of Saint Petersburg Metro.
The station is in the memoirs of famous people:
- The outstanding scientist, recipient of the USSR State PrizeUSSR State PrizeThe USSR State Prize was the Soviet Union's state honour. It was established on September 9, 1966. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the prize was followed up by the State Prize of the Russian Federation....
, Feodor Ivanovich Dubovitsky wrote that in 1931-1934 it by train with a steam locomotive went on a route from station Lansky to station PesochnyPesochnyPesochny is a municipal settlement in Kurortny District of the federal city of St. Petersurg, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus, on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland. Population:...
by last train. - Well-known Russian clownClownClowns are comic performers stereotypically characterized by the grotesque image of the circus clown's colored wigs, stylistic makeup, outlandish costumes, unusually large footwear, and red nose, which evolved to project their actions to large audiences. Other less grotesque styles have also...
and actorActorAn actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
Yuri NikulinYuri NikulinYuri Vladimirovich Nikulin was a well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown who starred in many popular films.He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1973 and Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990...
went to the Winter WarWinter WarThe Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939 – three months after the start of World War II and the Soviet invasion of Poland – and ended on 13 March 1940 with the Moscow Peace Treaty...
from Lanskaya station Lanskaya in 1940.