Moscow Leningradsky railway station

{{Short description|Railway station in Moscow, Russia}}

{{Other uses|Leningradsky (disambiguation)}}

{{Other uses|Nikolayevsky (disambiguation)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{More citations needed|date=March 2012}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Moscow–Leningradsky

| native_name = Москва–Ленинградская

| native_name_lang = ru

| type = October Railway terminal

| style = RZD

| image = Ленинградский вокзал.JPG

| image_caption = View from Komsomolskaya Square.

| address = Komsomolskaya Square, 3, Moscow, Russia

| coordinates = {{coord|55.776111|37.655278|display=inline}}

| owned = Russian Railways

| other_name = Moscow Passazhirskaya

| operator = October Railway

| line = Saint Petersburg–Moscow railway

| other = {{unbulleted list|Moscow Metro stations:|{{MOSMETRO-bull|1}} Komsomolskaya|{{MOSMETRO-bull|5}} Komsomolskaya|Tram: 7, 13, 37, 50|Bus: 40, 122, А|Trolleybus: 14, 41}}

| structure =

| platform = 6

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| tracks = 10

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| opened = 1851

| closed =

| rebuilt = 1903, 1977

| electrified =

| accessible =

| code = 060073

| zone = 0

| former = Peterburgsky, Nikolaevsky, Oktyabrsky

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Moscow Leningradsky railway station {{airport codes|ZKD}} ({{langx|ru|Ленинградский вокзал}}, Leningradsky vokzal) is the oldest of Moscow's nine railway terminals.{{cite book | last=Petukhova | first=Nina | title=Ploshchadʹ trekh vokzalov : arkhitekturnai︠a︡ biografii︠a | publisher=Ostrov | publication-place=Sankt-Peterburg | year=2005 | isbn=5-94500-028-0 | oclc=61367000 | pages=32–35}}{{cite book | last=Vasʹkin | first=A. A. | title=Moskva pri Romanovykh : k 400-letii︠u︡ t︠s︡arskoĭ dinastii Romanovykh | publisher=Sputnik | publication-place=Moskva | year=2013 | isbn=978-5-9973-2500-8 | oclc=861180654 }}{{cite web|url=http://dzvr.ru/about/structure/|title=Структурные подразделения|date=2018|publisher=Дирекция железнодорожных вокзалов}} Situated on Komsomolskaya Square, the station serves north-western directions, notably Saint Petersburg. International services from the station include Tallinn, Estonia, operated by GoRail, and Helsinki, Finland. It is the only Moscow railway terminal operated by October Railway rather than Moscow Railway.

History

Image:Stasiun kereta api Leningradsky Moskwa pada pagi hari.jpg

The station was constructed between 1844 and 1851 to an eclectic design by Konstantin Thon as the terminus of the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway, a pet project of Emperor Nicholas I. Regular connection was opened in 1851. Initially it was known as Peterburgsky (i.e., St Petersburg station). Upon the Emperor's death five years later, the station was named Nikolayevsky (and the railway Nikolayevskaya) after him and retained this name until 1924, when the Bolsheviks renamed it Oktyabrsky terminal (and the corresponding railway to October railway), to commemorate the October Revolution. The present name was given in 1937.{{Cite web|url=https://um.mos.ru/houses/leningradskiy_vokzal/|title=Знаменитые исторические Здания — Узнай Москву}}

Thon's design follows closely that of the station's counterpart in St. Petersburg. The monotonous regularity of rustication and pilasters is enlivened with Italianate details (ground floor windows strongly reminiscent of the Palazzo Rucellai) and an elegant clocktower at the centre (probably inspired by the Palazzo Senatorio in Rome). Even more rigorous is the exterior of the nearby Moscow Customs House (1844–1852), also by Thon. The interior of the station was modernized and renovated in 1950 and 1972.

Destinations

=Long distance from Moscow=

class="wikitable"
Train numberTrain nameDestinationOperated by
001/002Krasnaya Strela (rus: Красная стрела){{flagicon|Russia}} St. Petersburg (Moskovsky){{flagicon|Russia}} Russian Railways
003/004Express (rus: Экспресс){{flagicon|Russia}} St. Petersburg (Moskovsky){{flagicon|Russia}} Russian Railways
005/006Double-deck coach (rus: Двухэтажный состав){{flagicon|Russia}} St. Petersburg (Moskovsky){{flagicon|Russia}} Russian Railways
007/008

|Double-deck coach (rus: Двухэтажный состав)

|{{flagicon|Russia}} St. Petersburg (Moskovsky)

|{{flagicon|Russia}} Russian Railways

009/010Pskov (rus: Псков){{flagicon|Russia}} Pskov{{flagicon|Russia}} Russian Railways
011/012Alexander Nevsky (rus: Александр Невский){{flagicon|Russia}} St. Petersburg (Moskovsky){{flagicon|Russia}} Russian Railways
015/016Arktika (rus: Арктика){{flagicon|Russia}} Murmansk{{flagicon|Russia}} Russian Railways
017/018Karelia (rus: Карелия){{flagicon|Russia}} Petrozavodsk{{flagicon|Russia}} Russian Railways
019/020Megapolis (rus: Мегаполис){{flagicon|Russia}} St. Petersburg (Moskovsky){{flagicon|Russia}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20100715195123/http://megapolis-te.ru/ Tverskoy Express]
025/026Smena/A. Betankur (rus: Смена/А. Бетанкур){{flagicon|Russia}} St. Petersburg (Moskovsky){{flagicon|Russia}} Russian Railways
027/028Severnaya Palmira (rus: Северная Пальмира){{flagicon|Russia}} St. Petersburg (Moskovsky){{flagicon|Russia}} Russian Railways
037/038Afanasiy Nikitin (rus: Афанасий Никитин){{flagicon|Russia}} St. Petersburg (Moskovsky){{flagicon|Russia}} Russian Railways
053/054Grand Express (rus: Гранд Экспресс){{flagicon|Russia}} St. Petersburg (Moskovsky){{flagicon|Russia}} [http://www.grandexpress.ru/en/ Grand Service Express]
063/064Dve Stolitsy (rus: Две Столицы){{flagicon|Russia}} St. Petersburg (Moskovsky){{flagicon|Russia}} Russian Railways
747/748

|Nevsky express (rus: Невский Экспресс)

|{{flagicon|Russia}} St. Petersburg (Moskovsky)

|{{flagicon|Russia}} Russian Railways

725Ч/726Ч

|Lastochka (rus: Ласточка)

|{{flagicon|Russia}} St. Petersburg (Moskovsky)

|{{flagicon|Russia}} Russian Railways

There are also numerous ordinary long range trains to these directions.

=High-speed rail=

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Train numberTrain nameDestinationOperated by
751/752{{cite web|url=http://press.rzd.ru/isvp/public/press?STRUCTURE_ID=654&layer_id=4069&refererVpId=1&refererPageId=704&refererLayerId=4065&id=74920|title=Russian Railways press release}}
753/754
755/756
757/758
759/760
761/762
763/764
765/766
767/768
769/770
771/772
773/774
775/776
777/778
779/780
781/782

| Sapsan (rus: Сапсан)

{{flagicon|Russia}} St. Petersburg (Moskovsky){{flagicon|Russia}} Russian Railways

High-speed commuter rail

Since 1 October 2015, Siemens Desiro RUS high speed commuter trains operating on Moscow-Tver and Moscow-Kryukovo (Zelenograd) routes. The major stops on the route are:Khimki, Kryukovo (Zelenograd), Podsolnechnaya (Solnechnogorsk) and Klin.

=Other destinations=

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CountryDestinations
{{flagicon|Russia}} RussiaBologoye, Borovichi, Ostashkov, Tver, Velikie Luki, Veliky Novgorod, Zelenograd (Kryukovo)

=Suburban destinations=

Suburban commuter trains (elektrichka) connect Leningradsky station with stations and platforms of the Leningradsky suburban railway line, in particular, with the towns of Khimki, Zelenograd (Kryukovo), Solnechnogorsk (Podsolnechnaya), Klin, Konakovo, and Tver.

Gallery

Image:Leningradsky Station.jpg|The platform of the Leningrad station in 2010.

Image:Express(Moscow-St.PeterBurg) - panoramio.jpg|Express Moscow—St. Petersburg Sapsan at the Leningradsky Railway Station

Image:ES2G-016 (Desiro RUS) Moscow-Tver at Leningradsky railway station 2016-07-30 002.jpg|Electric train Lastochka (eng. Swallow) ES2G-016 Moscow-Tver at the Leningradsky railway station

Image:Russian named passenger train "Krasnaya Strela". Moscow, Leningradskiy station.jpg|Overnight sleeper train "Red Arrow" at the Leningrad station in Moscow

Image:Николаевский_вокзал2.jpg|Historical view of the station (1900)

Image:Leningradterminal01.jpg|View from Komsomolskaya (Koltsevaya Line) metro station

Image:Ленинградский зал 01.jpg|Leningradsky railway station after reconstruction

Image:Aliexpress.jpg|Aliexpress pavilion at the Leningrad station

References

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