🏛 Avtovo station

Glass-clad columns and chandeliers — an underground “palace”

The station opened on 15 November 1955 — the first Leningrad metro train came here.
It is the only shallow-level station on the first line: it is 12 m deep and has a staircase instead of escalators.
Of the 46 columns, 16 are clad in cast glass with relief — glass was used in the metro for the first time then.
The inscription on the pavilion dome first read “Glory to Great Stalin”; now it is about the defenders of Leningrad.
In 2014 The Guardian included Avtovo in its list of the 12 most beautiful metro stations in the world.

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