Lanskaya railway station. Andrey GusarovFrom the Finland Station to Vyborg. From the history of the Finnish railway. Stations, people, events. Journey into the past. To the former border with the Grand Duchy of Finland
Lanskaya is a junction railway station in the historical district of Lanskaya on a double-track electrified section of the Vyborgsky direction of the Oktyabrskaya railway between Finlandsky railway station and Shuvalovo station. Also, a single-track (two tracks go only to the next Novaya Derevnya station) electrified line to Sestroretsk departs from the station, connecting with the main direction in Beloostrov and a connecting branch with Kushelevka station (Priozerskoye and Irinovskoye directions). All electric trains coming from the Finland Station towards Vyborg and Sestroretsk stop at the station, except for high-speed trains. The station is located on an embankment, Serdobolskaya Street runs between the platforms of two directions.
The station was opened in 1869 as part of the Finnish Railway. The first wooden station building was designed by architect Wolmar Westling. The new stone four-story building of the station was built in 1910 by the Finnish architect Bruno Granholm in the style of "national romanticism". It is currently located at the railway embankment, below the level of the track. In 1934, tracks from Novaya Derevnya were brought to the station, and it began to receive trains to Sestroretsk. Simultaneously with the electrification of the railway, by August 4, 1951, high platforms were installed at the station. In the same period, the Lansk electrical substation was built next to the station. In 2003, the platforms and the station were reconstructed.
Description
The station is located on an embankment, the tracks pass through 2 overpasses above Serdobolskaya street. In the northern (even) neck of the station, the tracks pass along the overpass over the Ispytateley Avenue and along the overpass over the Lanskoye Highway. Immediately after the Lansky overpass, an odd-numbered path leaves for Sestroretsk, going down and passing under the main passage. Above Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Prospekt and Institutsky Lane there are two overpasses each, two double-track for trains from and to Finland Station and from and to Kushelevka, the other two are single-track only from and to Kushelevka. There is another single-track overpass at the entrance traffic light from the Kushelevka side above Zemledelcheskaya Street. The platform of odd direction (to Vyborg and Sestroretsk) is located to the north of the overpass above Serdobolskaya street. To the north of the overpass, an even path from Sestroretsk also adjoins (it approaches the main passage even before the overpass over the Lanskoye Highway, and goes next to it before joining the main passage). The platform of the even direction (to the Finlyandsky railway station) is located to the south of the overpass. From both platforms there are stair descents to the sidewalks of Serdobolskaya Street. There are 3 tracks at the station: two main ones, on which electric trains arrive and one for freight trains, trains weighing up to 3500 tons can be accepted on it. This track leaves for Kushelevka south of the station.
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The first wooden building of the Lanskaya station. |
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Station station Lanskaya, built in 1910 by architect B. Granholm. |
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Electric train СР3-1270 departs from Lanskaya station in the direction of Zelenogorsk. Photo of the 50s of the 20th century from the archive of A. Shumkov. The paths of the Primorskaya branch (to Sestroretsk) are visible to the left and to the right. On the right, you can see the building of the electrical substation in the distance. |
The first wooden station Lanskaya, as we know, appeared by 1870 on the lands of the Lansky counts, just like Lanskoye Highway - the shortest way to Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt and to the city center. Nearby was the Imperial Forestry Academy. In its park, the famous duel took place in September 1825 between Lieutenant of the Life Guards of the Semenovsky Regiment K, Chernov and the adjutant wing, lieutenant of the Life Guards of the Hussar Regiment Vladimir Novosiltsev, which ended in the death of both duelists. On the eve of the December events of 1825, it had a political connotation. In 1834-1838, in memory of her son, Countess E. V. Novosiltseva, nee Orlova, built the Prince Vladimirskaya Church and, in combination with it, three almshouse buildings according to the project of architect I. I. Charlemagne (Engels Ave., 1- 3-5).
The Lanskaya station was rebuilt as the penultimate one built by the architect B. Granholm on this line. Its architecture and details are dominated by the rationalist tendencies of Art Nouveau architecture with high quality finishes. The building is two-three-story, plastered, painted in two colors. The plinth is lined with granite. Facades of windows of various sizes and shapes along the vertical axes, combining groups of windows with dark planes against a light background of walls, roofs of increased volumes, completed with a tent or gable and with a group of attic windows, bay windows, balconies. A small deglazing of window fillings in their upper parts is characteristic - a common technique in Art Nouveau, originally used by the Austrian architect I. Hoffmann.
The architecture of the Lanskoy station is in the style of pure Art Nouveau, and only the tongs and the corner tower testify to the author's romantic moods. From the side of the platform, the building comes to its mark with the second floor from the service premises. This is due to the construction of a connecting line between the Finnish Railway and the Imperial Nikolaevskaya. At the Lanskoy station, new tracks were docked with the rise of the Finnish Railway with the appearance of overpasses, providing interchanges at different levels with Serdobolskaya Street, Lesnoy Prospekt, Bolshoy Sampsonevsky, Institutsky Lane, Zemledelchesky and others within the city. From the Lanskoy station there is a branch to the Kushelevka station - the first station of the connecting line from the Finnish Railway.
Drawing of the station at Lanskaya station, 1909, signed by architect Bruno Granholm (possible). Source: National Archives of Finland.
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Historical Notes
To the attention of the Finnish Railroad Administration. dor.
As you know, the area located near the station "Lanskaya", especially in the area of the Vyborg highway, has been heavily built up in recent years. New stone and wooden houses consist of winter apartments occupied all year round by the families of people who are forced to visit St. Petersburg daily for work and business.
The fastest and most convenient communication with the city is maintained by the Finnish Railway.
Unfortunately, in winter, when the need for warm, convenient and fast communication among the residents of Lanskaya increases, the station is closed.
Dozens of people interested in the continuity of the message, turn to our editorial office with requests to indicate ways to apply for the stop of local trains at the station "Lanskaya" during the winter season.
Believing that the Road Administration, closing the station at the end of the summer season, is guided by economic considerations, passengers petition to leave for the winter instead of the station at least one platform without a staff of station employees and without selling tickets, following the example of the Grafskaya and Dibuny platforms.
Taking into account that the execution of this request will not cause expenses for the railway, but, on the contrary, will give it a significant number of new annual and one-time passengers, we cannot but join the present petition of the residents of Lanskaya and hope that the Finnish State Railways Administration, in general, is responsive to the convenience of the public, will not refuse here in the share of his attention.
Residents of the entire Lanskoy district will thank him very much.
About Lanskaya station.
This place is located approximately on the northern outskirts of the Vyborg side.
On the one hand, the forest-technical academy park and buildings along Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Prospekt adjoin the area, on the other hand, a tram park built in 1917.
There are a lot of streets around and small railway bridges over them, all together it forms a whole interweaving of all this, in which you can’t figure it out the first time.
1. Lanskaya is a junction railway station in the historical district of Lanskaya on a double-track electrified section of the Vyborgsky direction of the Oktyabrskaya railway between Finlandsky railway station and Pargolovo station. Also, a single-track electrified line to Sestroretsk departs from the station, connecting with the main direction in Beloostrov and a connecting branch with the Kushelevka station (direction to Priozersk).
All electric trains coming from the Finland Station towards Vyborg and Sestroretsk stop at the station, except for high-speed trains.
The station is located on an embankment, Serdobolskaya Street runs between the platforms of two directions. Entrance to the platform is free, there are no turnstiles yet. A significant part of the station is located right on the railway bridges across the local streets and lanes.
2. The entrance to the platforms is equipped directly across the bridge over Serdobolskaya Street. On the right, two paths of the Vyborg main passage are visible, on the left, the path coming from the Kushelevka station.
3. Near the station there is a large and conspicuous house built in 1953 by Stalin. The house is clearly visible from passing trains, and it is the architectural dominant of the area.
3. DC traction substation, also built in a characteristic post-war style. The Vyborg direction of the Leningrad railway junction was electrified in the DC standard in 1951, that is, almost immediately after the war.
4. Direction to Vyborg. The nearest train stop in this direction is Udelnaya.
The path in the middle is the beginning of a branch to Beloostrov or to the so-called coastal railway line running along the resort northern coast of the Neva Bay. A branch to Beloostrov from Lanskaya was carried out in the 30s of the last century.
5. The movement of electric trains is very intensive here. There are also Allegro trains and a lot of freight trains.
6. The stone building of the Lanskaya station station was built in 1910 by the Finnish architect Bruno Granholm in the style of "national romanticism". It is currently located at the railway embankment, below the level of the track.
The railway line to Finland itself was built back in 1869, and until 1910 Lanskaya had a wooden passenger building.
7. Inside we see a typical floor tile for that era.
The station building is not crowded, people prefer to take advantage of the controllers in the electric train.
8. Photograph of the station Lanskaya 100 years ago.
Judging by the photo, there are no bridges over Serdobolskaya Street yet, but there is a simple crossing.
9. Railways of the Karelian Isthmus, or everything north of the Neva.
10. Bridges over Serdobolskaya Street, which, judging by their appearance, were built in the 10s or 20s of the last century.
11. View from the bridges to the same huge Stalinist house, inside of which an earlier house is built, which has a crimson color.
12. Construction of 1913-14, architect Nikolai Tovstoles.
In October 1917, Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) was hiding in the apartment of the Bolshevik Margarita Fofanova. On April 30, 1938, the memorial museum of V.I. Lenin was opened in the apartment. In 1991, the premises were transferred to the Knowledge Society. In 1997, the apartment was sold to private ownership.
13. A bust of the leader was erected near the house a very long time ago. The tablet says that from this front door, one day, the leader went to make a revolution.
A historical place, one of the birthplaces of the future USSR.
14. House across the street from "Lenin". It stands right next to the railway bridges over Serdobolskaya.
On the house in honor of the path of V.I. Lenin to Smolny from Fofanova’s apartment (in the house opposite) in October 1917, for a long time there was a huge fresco depicting armed sailors and something else, now it is gone.
Now a little about the countless bridges in these places.
16. View from the railway bridge over Bolshoi Sampsonievsky Prospekt. On the right is an apartment building built in 1913.
In the depths, by the way, you can see the turret of the same Stalinist house that stands near Lanskaya.
17. View of this bridge from below, from Bolshoi Sampsonievsky Prospekt. There is no information about the 3-storey house in Wikimapia.
18. Bridges over B. Sampsonievskiy turn into bridges over Institutskiy Lane, which goes deep into the forestry technical academy park.
19. View of the bridges from the south. The slanting truss gives the bridge a special elegance and makes it practically an object of railway architecture.
20. This is how this place looks from the side of the tracks. Below me is a bridge across Institutskiy Lane.
21. The main 2-track passage turns towards the St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky station, and right in front of me there is a single-track jumper from Lanskaya to Kushelevka, along which intensive freight transit traffic to Vyborg and Scandinavia is carried out from the rest of Russia.
In the depths, houses on Lesnoy Prospekt are visible.
22. Single-track jumper from Kushelevka to Lanskaya.
I must say that from the side of the tracks the whole area looks completely different than from below.
23. Bridges over Zemledelcheskaya Street, on one of which an electric train went from Vyborg. Immediately behind that bridge, houses along B. Sampsonievskiy are visible.
Speaking of houses:
24. An interesting house is the profitable house of E. I. Heiderich, which stands in this quarter. Year of construction 1908.
In general, there are a lot of beautiful houses here, especially Stalinist buildings, and the main building of all the local quarters was completed in the early and middle of the 20th century.
25. Residential building with attached premises. 1951-1953, architect V.F. Belov. It stands on the corner of the 1st Murinsky and B. Sampsonievskiy prospects.
And right next to this house, along the embankment and railway bridges, the railway of the Vyborg direction passes.
26. Railway bridges across the 1st Murinsky prospect.
27. And these are the railway bridges over the 1st Murinsky, along which the exit from the St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky station towards Kushelevka and further to Sosnovo or Lake Ladoga is carried out.
28. Found this on the net. What is this bridge?
I suppose that through B. Sampsonievsky.
29. View of the bridges from Lesnoy Prospekt. There, behind them, there is another single-track bridge, along which there is an exit from Kushelevka to Lanskaya and Vyborg.
I'll call it all Vyborg railway interchange. It has the shape of a 3-ray star, corresponding to the directions to Kushelevka - Piskarevka, to Vyborg - Beloostrov and to St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky. The interchange forms many bridges over the local streets, which looks unusual, because in other cities the roads and streets always turn and bypass the railways. Here, everything is heading in its direction.
30. An interesting photo of the 30s of the last century. Here you can clearly see the single-track bridge over Lesnoy Prospekt, which has an exit from Kushelevka to Lanskaya. Behind the bridge you can see the park of the forest-technical academy. But there are simply no bridges with a 2-track exit from St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky to Kushelevka (which are shown in the photo above).
In this connection, I suggest that they were built either before the war, or immediately after.
31. Snapshot of the 70s. Nothing changed.
Next comes the Lesnaya metro area and houses along Lesnoy Prospekt. This area directly borders the Lanskoy station area.
32. Open Joint Stock Company "Design Bureau of Special Machine Building" (JSC "KBSM"). Development of fire weapons for air defense (air defense) / aerospace defense (VKO). Included in JSC Air Defense Concern Almaz-Antey.
33. The building stands on Lesnoy Prospekt and, judging by the style, was built before the war. It looks solid and monumental.
34. Across the road from it stands such a typical house for pre-war Leningrad.
35. "House of Specialists", standing on the corner of Lesnoy and Kantemirovskaya Street.
It was built in 1934 - 1937 according to the project of architects G.A.Simonov, B.R.Rubanenko, T.D.Katsenelenbogen.
It stands out in silhouette with a corner 7-storey tower, on the facade of which from the side of Lesnoy Ave. the inscription from the times of the blockade was restored: "Citizens! During shelling, this side of the street is the most dangerous."
It is likely that the Germans even got these places on the Vyborg side with their artillery. After all, this is the northern part of the city, the most distant from the front line.
36. The same place in the 60s.
37. The wall of the "house of specialists".
38. Houses on Kantemirovskaya street.
39. Ground pavilion of the Lesnaya metro station.
40. The station is located on the 1st (red) metro line. Built in 1975.
It is noteworthy that in the period from 1995 to 2004 it was forced to end. Due to underground erosion, the "red" metro line was broken for 9 years.
I think that the residents of Grazhdanka remember this station and all this blurry story well.
There is still a lot of things in this area and it will pull more than one post.
