Moscow Leningradsky railway station

Leningradsky railway station at night

The station was constructed between 1844 and 1851 to an eclectic design by Konstantin Thon as the terminus of the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway, a pet project of Emperor Nicholas I. Regular connection was opened in 1851. Initially it was known as Peterburgsky (i.e., St Petersburg station). Upon the Emperor's death five years later, the station was named Nikolayevsky (and the railway Nikolayevskaya) after him and retained this name until 1924, when the Bolsheviks renamed it Oktyabrsky terminal (and the corresponding railway to October railway), to commemorate the October Revolution. The present name was given in 1937.[4]

Thon's design follows closely that of the station's counterpart in St. Petersburg. The monotonous regularity of rustication and pilasters is enlivened with Italianate details (ground floor windows strongly reminiscent of the Palazzo Rucellai) and an elegant clocktower at the centre (probably inspired by the Palazzo Senatorio in Rome). Even more rigorous is the exterior of the nearby Moscow Customs House (1844–1852), also by Thon. The interior of the station was modernized and renovated in 1950 and 1972.

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  The platform of the Leningrad station in 2010.
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  Express Moscow—St. Petersburg Sapsan at the Leningradsky Railway Station
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  Electric train Lastochka (eng. Swallow) ES2G-016 Moscow-Tver at the Leningradsky railway station
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  Overnight sleeper train "Red Arrow" at the Leningrad station in Moscow
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  Historical view of the station (1900)
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  View from Komsomolskaya (Koltsevaya Line) metro station
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  Leningradsky railway station in Moscow after reconstruction

• Leningradsky station Official site (in Russian)