Devyatkino (russian: Девя́ткино; until 1992 Komsomolskaya russian: Комсомольская) is a station of the
Saint Petersburg Metro and
St. Petersburg–Kuznechnoye railway. It is the only Metro station located outside the city limits, in
Vsevolozhsky District
Vsevolozhsky District (russian: Все́воложский райо́н) is an administrativeOblast Law #32-oz and municipalLaw #17-oz district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the central northwestern p ...
of
Leningrad Oblast
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.
It is the northern terminus of the
Kirovsko–Vyborgskaya Line. The name of the station is derived from the name of nearby suburb. Like
Rybatskoye,
Kupchino and
Parnas the station is located on the surface and connected to an electrichka commuter train station by the same name. In this case, the southbound train tracks are on the left side of the station while the northbound tracks are on the right, allowing for easy transfers between the subway and the trains.
Devyatkino was opened on 29 December 1978 as the part of the last segment of the line.
Until 1982 it was the northernmost metro station in the world, which was surpassed by the Helsinki Metro.
Gallery
File:Devyatkino railway.jpg, Devyatkino railway station
External links
Images of the station at Ometro.net (Russian)Images of the station at Metrowalks.ru (Russian)panoramatic view (on the right)
Saint Petersburg Metro stations
Railway stations in Russia opened in 1978
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