Vasileostrovskaya

Vasileostrovkaya is a station on the Nevsko–Vasileostrovskaya Line in St Petersburg. It is named after where the station is located.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Vasilievsky Island and Annunciation Church (Saint Petersburg, Vasilievsky Island).

is an island in situated between the Bolshaya Neva and the Malaya Neva, two main distributaries of the river. The population of the district, including the adjacent to Dekabristov Island, separated by the Smolenka river, and smaller islets, is approximately 215,000 people.

Church
Saint Andrew's Cathedral was the last Baroque cathedral built in , . The cathedral was conceived at the time of Peter the Great as the chapter church of Russia's first chivalric order, that of Saint Andrew. is situated 580 metres southeast of Vasileostrovskaya.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint Petersburg and Peter and Paul Fortress.

, known as Petrograd in 1914-1924 and Leningrad in 1924-1991, is the second largest city of Russia, with 5.6 million inhabitants, the fourth most populous city in Europe, the world's northernmost city of at least a million residents, and the former capital of the Russian Empire.

Neighborhood
The is the original citadel of , Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706 to 1740 as a star fortress. is situated 2½ km east of Vasileostrovskaya.

The is a borough in consisting of the islands of the northern part of the Neva delta. Mostly residential, it is also home to several smaller universities, stadiums of FC Zenit and the tallest structure of the city, a 326-m-high TV tower.

Vasileostrovskaya

Latitude
59.94318° or 59° 56′ 35″ north
Longitude
30.27536° or 30° 16′ 31″ east
Operator
ГУП «Петербургский метрополитен»
Network
Петербургский метрополитен
Open location code
9GFGW7VG+74
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2468455392
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Wiki­data ID
Q640755
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In Other Languages

From Bashkir to Urdu—“Vasileostrovskaya” goes by many names.
  • Bashkir: Василеостровская
  • Belarusian: Васілеастроўская
  • Chinese: 瓦西里島站
  • Dutch: Vasileostrovskaja
  • Esperanto: Vasileostrovskaja
  • Finnish: Vasileostrovskajan metroasema
  • French: Vasileostrovskaïa
  • French: Vassileostrovskaïa
  • Hungarian: Vaszileosztrovszkaja
  • Indonesian: Vasileostrovskaya
  • Italian: Vasileostrovskaja
  • Korean: 바실레오스트롭스카야역
  • Mongolian: Василеостровская (өртөө)
  • Mongolian: Василеостровская
  • Polish: Wasileostrowskaja (metro w Petersburgu)
  • Polish: Wasileostrowskaja
  • Portuguese: Estação Vasileostrovskaia
  • Russian: Василеостровская
  • Ukrainian: Василеострівська
  • Urdu: واسیلیوستروسکایا

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Институт наук о Земле СПбГУ and Мировой судья, участок 15.

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