Kushelevka

Kushelevka is a railway station in Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast. Kushelevka is situated nearby to the metro station Lesnaya, as well as near the suburb Vyborg Side.

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Type: Railway station
Description: railway station
Also known as: “Kushelëvka”, “Stantsiya Kushelevka”, and “Stantsiya Kushelëvka”
Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lesnaya and Muzhestva Square.

Lesnaya

Metro station

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Lesnaya is a station of the Saint Petersburg Metro underground railroad system in the northern, Vyborgsky district, part of its Line One. Named and coloured after its neighbourhood around Forestry Academy and the eponymous nearby avenue Lesnoy Prospect leading to the college from downtown. Lesnaya is situated 670 metres southwest of Kushelevka.

Muzhestva Square

Square

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Ploschad Muzhestva is an open public square, shaped as a roundabout, in the north-east of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Its name and decoration commemorate the fortitude city dwellers demonstrated during the nearly 900-day-long 1941–44 Nazi Germany Siege of Leningrad as the square opens the way to the biggest burial place of the siege victims Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery. Muzhestva Square is situated 1 km northeast of Kushelevka.

Сквер академика Лихачёва

Park

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Сквер академика Лихачёва is a park, which is situated 1 km north of Kushelevka.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vyborg Side and North Saint Petersburg.

Vyborg Side

Suburb

'The Vyborg Side is the traditional name of the northern and northeastern part of Saint Petersburg, Russia on the right-hand bank of the city's main waterway Neva and its first right-hand arm the Bolshaya Nevka.

North Saint Petersburg

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The Northern Part of St. Petersburg is the area north of the Bolshaya Nevka river, which is its boundary with the Petrograd Side to the south. There are some moderately notable landmarks scattered across it, such as the Academy of Forestry with its park…