St. Petersburg Metro. Legends of the Metro, Projects, Architects, Artists and Sculptors, Stations, Above-ground Vestibules

Did you know that an underground railway in St. Petersburg was supposed to be built as early as the 1820s and the great poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin could very well have become a passenger of the metro? In 1814, English... inventor Mark Isambard Brunel presented to Emperor Alexander I a project for the world's first tunnel boring shield for the construction of tunnels under the Neva. This shield was used to build an underwater tunnel under the Thames for the London Underground, but in the city on the Neva, the first underground line only appeared in November 1955, although it was planned to open it in 1925 and 1942.
Readers will visit all the stations of the St. Petersburg Metro, learn a lot of interesting facts from the biographies of architects, artists, and sculptors who participated in their creation, and those who wish are invited to use the hints to find surprises "hidden" by the masters in their creations.
Some facts may come as a surprise, and there are legends and amazing stories: you will find out what writer Sergei Dovlatov was involved in during the construction of the metro...