ABOUT THE STATION

The first trains on Russia’s first railway – a 25-km stretch from St. Petersburg to the imperial summer residence of Tsarskoye Selo – set off on October 30, 1837. It was decided to build the station near Zagorodny Prospekt between the barracks of the Semyonovsky Life Guards Regiment and the regimental Vvedenskaya Church located not far from Vvedensky Canal.

The construction of a temporary wooden station building began on August 9, 1837, and continued to the end of September. Ten years later, in 1848, the decision was made to build a new building to help cope with the increase in passenger volumes.

A new two-storey station in the neo-Renaissance style was erected next to the old building in 1849 – 1851, which itself soon turned out to be too small and underwent reconstruction in 1876 – 1882.

The official opening of the current station took place on August 1, 1904, around about the same time the Moscow-Vindavo-Rybinsk Railway was commissioned. The building was designed by the architect S. A. Brzozowski, together with the civil engineer S. Minash.