🏛 Baltiysky Railway Station

наб. Обводного канала, 120

A mid-19th-century station modelled on the Gare de l'Est in Paris, with a clock in the large window of its façade.

The building was constructed in 1855–1858 by architect Alexander Krakau; the prototype was the Gare de l'Est in Paris.
Until 1872 the station was called the Peterhof Station: it was built for Baron Stieglitz's private railway to Peterhof.
The station's left wing was intended for the imperial family.
The "Pavel Buré" clock in the stained-glass window of the façade still works.
The Oranienbaum line was the first in Leningrad to get electric trains — trial runs began in January 1933.
The Baltiyskaya metro vestibule of 1955 was added to the left wing, breaking the symmetry of the façade.

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