Admiralteyskaya metro station is a fairly young station in St. Petersburg. However, an important location and interesting decorative design put it among the most popular and famous.
History of creation
The time of creation of the metro station St. Petersburg "Admiralteyskaya" dates back to 2012. However, the initial term for putting it into operation was planned fourteen years earlier. The history of construction is associated with a number of problems, the main of which were: irregular financing, the complexity of engineering calculations due to proximity to the Neva, and the inability to quickly resolve the issue of the resettlement of the house, on the ground floor of which its upper lobby was to be located.
As a result, the construction was completed, and the Admiralteyskaya metro station in St. Petersburg very quickly became one of the most passable stations in the city. Since its opening took place on January 2, the event became the long-awaited New Year's gift.
Place in the subway system
The metro station SPb Admiralteyskaya is included in the fifth, violet branch line connecting Komendantsky Prospekt and Volkovskaya, and is adjacent to such a large interchange hub as Sadovaya - Spasskaya - Sennaya. You can get through it to the Admiralteyskaya from the orange and blue branches. To get to the Admiralteyskaya from the red branch, you need to make a transfer at another interchange hub: Pushkinskaya - Zvenigorodskaya. The most inconvenient route to the Admiralteyskaya is from the green line. To get to this station, you must make at least two transfers. To do this, you can use the following interchange nodes: "Alexander Nevsky Square-1" - "Alexander Nevsky Square - 2" - "Sadovaya - Spasskaya - Sennaya".
Location Benefits
Admiralteyskaya metro station is one of those that connect citizens with the very heart of St. Petersburg. Its main exit is on Malaya Morskaya Street, which overlooks Nevsky Prospekt near the Arch of the General Staff Building, Palace Square and the Hermitage. If you go along the Nevsky to the left, you can see the famous Admiralty, and a little to the left of it - the Senate Square.
Neva is also very close. On Palace Bridge, you can easily get to one of the most inaccessible places in the city before - Strelki Vasilievsky Island and University Embankment, where the Kunstkamera, the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Arts, the Building of 12 Colleges, the Exchange and Rostral Columns, the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Otto, Zoological Museum and Museum of Soil Science in the buildings of the former warehouse. And if you go along Nevsky Prospekt to the right, then by crossing the Police (former Green) bridge over the Moika, you can get acquainted with the Stroganov Palace.
Decorative decoration
Admiralteyskaya is a deep-laying station. The depth of the Admiralteyskaya metro station exceeds eighty meters. To exit the lower lobby to the surface, you must climb on two escalators. A trip to the Admiralteyskaya galleries is a very pleasant walk, because the interiors of the station are a mini-museum of mosaic art on the theme of maritime history and glory of Russia.
Between the supports of the lower lobby there are mosaic medallions with portraits of famous commanders of the Russian fleet. They are made in the form of high reliefs. Among naval commanders - Admiral General Apraksin, admirals: Ushakov, Bellingshausen, Grigorovich, Makarov, Nakhimov.
One of the important semantic panels of the Admiralteyskaya metro station is the Foundation of the Admiralty, the other two, Neva and Neptune, allegorically glorify the sea and river elements, with which St. Petersburg itself is associated with nature.
The "Admiralty Foundation" is located in the end wall of the lower lobby. In the foreground we see Peter I and Admiral Cornelius Kruys at work on the drawings of the Admiralty fortress-shipyard. Nearby are naval officers, on the right, the symbol of the Russian Navy - the Andreevsky flag, proudly flutters, in the background on the left - a military sailing ship, which later leaves the slipways of the new shipyard. In the background is the Neva, a blue sky and a symbol of freedom - soaring seagulls.
Above the arch of the passage from the first escalator to the second there is a small mosaic canvas depicting the god of the seas of Neptune, rushing towards the audience in his chariot, which harnessed the sea horses-hippocampi. This image reminds us of a fragment of a sculptural composition on one of the Exchange's attics.
And the rectangular, almost square panel between the escalators on the wall depicts the Neva sitting on the throne, surrounded by a sea anchor, a cannon scattered on the steps of the cores, compass, globe, square and ruler, a scroll with a map. Ahead - a mascaron in the form of a lion's face with a mooring ring in its mouth - a symbol of the port city. Neva holds a paddle in his hand. In the background is a frigate leaving for sea sailing with its sails raised and St. Andrew's flag flying in the stern. The image of the Neva resembles a figure from the pedestal of one of the Rostral columns.
The mosaic panel of the upper lobby refers to the engravings of Alexei Zubov. It depicts in all its grandeur the Admiralty with sailboats launched from its slipways. Small rowing military vessels scurry about between frigates. On most ships, St. Andrew's flags fly.
All mosaic paintings are framed in gilded frames, which gives them special solemnity and significance. And the stations are a parade.