One of the largest railway stations in St. Petersburg, included in the top three busiest stations in Russia. Moscow Railway Station in St. Petersburg for more than 160 years of its work has turned into a comfortable modern complex that serves 15,000 long-distance train passengers and about 30,000 suburban messages every day.

The twin brother of the Leningrad station in Moscow The Moscow railway station was built in the middle of the 19th century and was named after Nikolai I of Nikolayev, the modern name was given to the station only in 1930

Moscow station

A two-story Renaissance building for the convenience of passengers was erected in the very center of the city and had to fit organically into the architecture of the whole district .Of course, such a task was entirely up to the celebrated architect, and the building of the Moscow Railway Station, decorated with low round columns with a facade in the style of the Town Hall of West European cities, appeared at the Vosstaniya square .The windows of the station are made in the Venetian style, and in the center of the building was erected a clock tower, reminiscent of the tower-tower at the former building of the City Duma and indicating the direction of the main entrance to the building .

The reliefs of the halls of the Moscow railway station were decorated in the middle of the last century, and more recently - on July 12, 2005 - a monument to the postal pigeon of the work of the Petersburg sculptor Zair Abashvili was erected under the ceiling of the Marble Hall. The bird is attached to the vault on three chains and holds an olive branch in its beak (as Noah's Ark is remembered!), And in claws there is a scroll with the image of the coat of arms of St. Petersburg and the sign of the Federal Postal Service. Weight of the bird of the world is 4, 5 kg, and the wingspan is 60 cm.

The most popular destinations

From Moscow Station you can go to Moscow, oddly enough, Samara, Ufa, Adler, Nizhny Novgorod, Kislovodsk, Kursk, Ulyanovsk and many other cities of Russia .In the capital from here you can leave daily, almost every hour .Between the capitals there is a fast train "Sapsan" and other brand trains - "Nevsky Express", "Two capitals", "Athanasius Nikitin", ready to drive their passengers to Moscow in just four hours .The train "Samara", the next in the eponymous city, goes on odd numbers to Samara and is considered one of the best on the Kuibyshev Railway .Travel time - 31 hours .By the way, it is also possible to get to Ufa .

For 15 hours on the company train "Volga" you can get to Nizhny Novgorod. And on fast trains St. Petersburg - Belgorod and St. Petersburg - Sevastopol - to Kursk. Do not forget that both trains are on even days.

From the Moscow railway station, passengers can also leave for the nearest Baltic neighbors.

Preserving in its appearance a careful attitude to the historical monument and combining it with a modern transport hub that hosts thousands of passengers a day, the Moscow railway station became a place where not only people who meet with those who meet meet those who meet, but also time is history, modernity and the future.

Moscow station

Painting on the ceiling of the Moscow Railway Station