Park Pobedy (Saint Petersburg Metro)
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Park Pobedy (russian: Парк Побе́ды) (literally "Victory Park") is a station on the
Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line Line 2 of the Saint Petersburg Metro, also known as ''Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line'' (russian: Моско́вско-Петрогра́дская ли́ния) or ''Blue Line'', is a second oldest rapid transit line in Saint Petersburg, Russia, ...
of the
Saint Petersburg Metro The Saint Petersburg Metro (russian: links=no, Петербургский метрополитен, Peterburgskiy metropoliten) is a rapid transit system in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Construction began in early 1941, but was put on hold due to Wor ...
. It was opened on April 29, 1961. The above-ground vestibule was designed by A.S. Getskin and V.P. Shuvalova, and the subterranean elements of the project were designed by architect A.K. Andreev and engineer G.A. Skobennikov. The station is deep, and belongs to one of the deepest underground systems in the world. It was among the first on the Metro to introduce a "closed-type" design where the running tunnels and tracks are isolated from the platform by thick walls, and access to trains is regulated with automatically opening and closing platform screen doors - a world first.


References

Park Pobedy page at Official St.Petersburg Metro website
Saint Petersburg Metro stations Railway stations in Russia opened in 1961 1961 establishments in the Soviet Union Railway stations located underground in Russia {{Russia-railstation-stub