Uprising Square

Coordinates: 59°55′52″N 30°21′43″E / 59.931°N 30.362°E / 59.931; 30.362

Vosstaniya Square (Russian: Пло́щадь Восста́ния, lit. Uprising Square) is a major square in the Central Business District of Saint Petersburg, Russia. The square lies at the crossing of Nevsky Prospekt, Ligovsky Prospekt, Vosstaniya Street and Goncharnaya Street, in front of the Moskovsky Rail Terminal, which is the northern terminus of the line connecting the city with Moscow. Administratively, the Vosstaniya Square falls under the authority of the Tsentralny District.

From the 1840s to 1918 the square was known as Znamenskaya Square (Russian: Знаменская площадь, "Sign Square"), after the Church of the Sign () built there between 1794 and 1804 to a Neoclassical design by Fyodor Demertsov (). The church building commemorated the icon of Our Lady of the Sign,

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