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      The Aurora and Lenin's Steam Locomotive

      ⏱ 55 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The cruiser on Petrogradskaya Embankment, Finlyandsky Station with steam locomotive N2-293 and lunch on the Vyborg Side. Revolutionary Petersburg by the water.

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        🖼 Cruiser Aurora
        Петроградская наб.
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        An early 20th-century protected cruiser by Petrogradskaya Embankment — a museum ship with an open deck.
        The cruiser on Petrogradskaya Embankment; going onto the deck and into the museum takes about another hour.
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        Cruiser Aurora
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The cruiser was launched at the New Admiralty on 11 (24) May 1900 in the presence of Nicholas II.
        • She is named after the sailing frigate ‘Aurora’, which defended Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Crimean War.
        • At the Battle of Tsushima in 1905 the Aurora took 18 hits from Japanese shells, but survived.
        • A blank shot from the Aurora in autumn 1917 became the signal for the storming of the Winter Palace.
        • In 1941 nine 130-mm guns were taken off the cruiser for Battery ‘A’, which defended Leningrad at Duderhof.
        • The cruiser took up her permanent berth on 17 November 1948; naval cadets then lived and studied aboard.
        • During the 1984–1987 repair almost the whole underwater part of the hull was replaced.
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        🏛 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.
        Steam locomotive N2-293: Lenin left for Finland on it in 1917 and came back to Petrograd
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        Finlyandsky Station and Locomotive N2-293
        © Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • 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.
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        🍽 FermA
        Финляндский пр., 1
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        Lunch
        🍴 A White Group family restaurant with farm produce and its own baking, by the Sampsonievsky Bridge; a 10-minute walk from Finlyandsky Station. What to order: borscht, pumpkin soup in a bread bowl, beef tartare, pizza.

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