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Vitebsky Railway Station
Zagorodny pr., 52
On October 30, 1837, traffic opened on the first railway in Russia, 25 km long from St. Petersburg to Tsarskoye Selo, the summer imperial residence. It was decided to build the St. Petersburg station near Zagorodny Prospekt between the barracks of the Semenovsky Life Guards Regiment and the regimental Vvedenskaya Church, located near the Vvedensky Canal.
The construction of a temporary wooden station building began on August 9, 1837 and was completed at the end of September. Ten years later, in 1848, due to the increase in passenger traffic, a decision was made to build a new building.
A new stone two-story station in the neo-Renaissance style was erected next to the old building in 1849-1851, which after a few years also turned out to be insufficiently spacious and was completed in 1876-1882.
On August 1, 1904, simultaneously with the commissioning of the Moscow-Window-Rybinsk railway, the official opening of the operating station of St. Petersburg station took place, designed by architect S.A. Brzhozovsky in cooperation with civil engineer S.I. Minash.
