🏛 Finlyandsky Station and Locomotive N2-293

Санкт-Петербург, пл. Ленина, 6

The locomotive on which Lenin fled to Finland in 1917 and returned stands in a glass pavilion by the platforms; in front of the station is the "Lenin on an Armoured Car" monument.

The locomotive was built in 1900 by the American firm Richmond Locomotive Works.
On 9 August 1917 the driver Hugo Jalava took Lenin into the cab at Udelnaya station disguised as a stoker.
At Beloostrov, while the gendarmes checked passports, Jalava uncoupled the locomotive "to take on water" and returned by the third bell.
In 1924 the locomotive passed to Finland, and on 13 June 1957 the Finnish government gave it to the USSR.
The locomotive has stood by the station platform since 22 April 1961, and the glass pavilion was built by 1964.
Finlyandsky Station was the only one working during the Siege: on 7 February 1943 the first train from the "mainland" arrived here.
On 3 (16) April 1917 Lenin arrived at this station from emigration.