Leningradsky Rail Terminal

Moscow-Passazhirskaya

October Railway terminal

View from Komsomolskaya Square.

Location

Russia, Moscow, Komsomolskaya Square, 3

Coordinates

55°46′34″N 37°39′19″E / 55.776111°N 37.655278°E

Platforms

Tracks

Connections

Other information

Station code

060073

Fare zone

History

Opened

1851

Rebuilt

1903, 1977

Previous names

Peterburgsky, Nikolaevsky, Oktyabrsky

Services

Preceding station		October Railway		Following station
Rizhskaya toward Tver		Saint Petersburg – Moscow Railway Moscow suburban		Terminus
Tver toward Saint Petersburg Glavny		Saint Petersburg – Moscow Railway High-speed rail		Terminus

Moscow-Passazhirskaya (Russian: Москва-Главная-Пассажирская) also known as Leningradsky railway station (Russian: Ленинградский вокзал, Leningradsky vokzal) is the oldest of Moscow's nine railway terminals. Situated on Komsomolskaya Square, the station serves North-Western directions, notably Saint Petersburg. International services from the station include Tallinn, Estonia, operated by GoRail, and Helsinki, Finland.

It is the only Moscow railway terminal operated by October Railway rather than Moscow Railway.

The station was constructed between 1844 and 1851 to an eclectic design by Konstantin Thon as the terminus of the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway, a pet project of Emperor Nicholas I. Regular connection was opened in 1851. Initially it was known as Peterburgsky (i.e., St Petersburg station). Upon the Emperor's death five years later, the station was named Nikolayevsky (and the railway Nikolayevskaya) after him and retained this name until 1924, when the Bolsheviks renamed it Oktyabrsky terminal (and the corresponding railway to October railway), to commemorate the October Revolution. The present name was given a year later when the city of Petrograd became Leningrad.

Thon's design follows closely that of the station's counterpart in St. Petersburg. The monotonous regularity of rustication and pilasters is enlivened with Italianate details (ground floor windows strongly reminiscent of the Palazzo Rucellai) and an elegant clocktower at the centre (probably inspired by the Palazzo Senatorio in Rome). Even more rigorous is the exterior of the nearby Moscow Customs House (1844–1852), also by Thon. The interior of the station was modernized and renovated in 1950 and 1972.

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