Metro station near a must-see opens this month
On December 26 life of everybody coming to St. Petersburg as a visitor and of many residents will become much easier. A reconstructed metro station Gorkovskaya which was closed inlate 2008, will be opened again.
What is important for you is that the station is located just near the Peter and Paul fortress, one of the main city’s must-sees and must-attends, containing monuments, the burial of the Romanovs, the last governing family in the pre-bolsheviks’ Russia, museum of the city’s history and pieces of artillery at an artillery museum.
It’s also a venue for many events, just like the Sand festival taking place annualy.
One the monuments is one I’ve already written about: the statue of hare, since the island was named “the hare’s island”.
The fortress was chosen by Russian emperor Peter the Great to start the foundation of St. Petersburg from in 1703.
The location of the fortress is pictured here.
The location of the Gorkovskaya station is here.
Another metro news. At the same day, December 26, a newly-built metro station Zvenogorodskaya will be opened. So, the map of the St. Petersburg metro will be actual as this (names of the stations in Russian and English).
