St Petersburg Metro

St Petersburg Metro

real world underground museum with the most beautiful decorations
St Petersburg Metro - real world underground museum

Location: 

Avtovo, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia, 198096

Duration: 

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Journey: 

The Baltic Sea

personal highlights

  1. Metro Plan: 5 lines on 72 stations transport 2 million passengers a day!
  2. Metro Stations: visiting some of the most iconic stations on a single fare
  3. Decoration: initiated right before World War II, continued shortly after
  4. Must visits: Avtovo, Kirovsky Zavod, Narvskaya, Pushkinskaya
  5. Avtovo: my absolute favorite! a metro station in white marble

image sources

  1. Avtovo, the most beautiful metro station
  2. official logo of the St. Petersburg Metro
  3. soviet wall decorations in Narvskaya
  4. worker's column holding the tunnel
  5. People getting in and out the metro

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