Ploshchad Muzhestva (russian: Пло́щадь Му́жества, Square of Fortitude) is a station 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 ...
. Opened on 31 December 1975.
The station got its name because of its location next to the eponymous
square
In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles (90- degree angles, π/2 radian angles, or right angles). It can also be defined as a rectangle with two equal-length a ...
(
roundabout).
The square and the station were designed as a starting point on the way to
Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery (russian: Пискарёвское мемориа́льное кла́дбище) is located in Saint Petersburg, on the Avenue of the Unvanquished (Проспект Непокорённых), dedicated mostly to ...
where hundreds of thousands of victims, mostly civilian, of the 1941-44 siege of the city during World War II are buried.
Saint Petersburg Metro stations
Railway stations in Russia opened in 1975
Railway stations located underground in Russia
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