Ploshchad Mojesteva metro station. Leningrad, 1976. The station was opened on December 31, 1975 as part of the Lesnia - Akademichskaya section of the Kirovsko-Vyborg line. It was planned as "Kushlevka", but the final name was related to Mozhestvo Square. Together with the Polytechnic station, the station became the first one-story deep station in the world with an island platform: it was built at a depth of about 67 meters. Architects Yevgeny Rapoport, Alexander Svirsky and Pavel Yushkantsev immediately conceived the lobby above ground as part of the future residential complex. However, in 1976 it still stood apart; The house at Politekhnicheskaya, 17 was built only in 1995; The pavilion was located behind its facade, and today it appears to have been built into a residential building. In that year 1995, an emergency washout between Lesnia and Plushchad Mojesteva cut off the northern section of the line for almost nine years. Telegram | maximum.

Ploshchad Mojesteva metro station. Leningrad, 1976. The station was opened on December 31, 1975 as part of the Lesnia - Akademichskaya section of the Kirovsko-Vyborg line. It was planned as "Kushlevka", but the final name was related to Mozhestvo Square. Together with the Polytechnic station, the station became the first one-story deep station in the world with an island platform: it was built at a depth of about 67 meters. Architects Yevgeny Rapoport, Alexander Svirsky and Pavel Yushkantsev immediately conceived the lobby above ground as part of the future residential complex. However, in 1976 it still stood apart; The house at Politekhnicheskaya, 17 was built only in 1995; The pavilion was located behind its facade, and today it appears to have been built into a residential building. In that year 1995, an emergency washout between Lesnia and Plushchad Mojesteva cut off the northern section of the line for almost nine years. Telegram | maximum.