Komendantsky Prospekt, Metro station in Primorsky District, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Komendantsky Prospekt is a metro station in the Primorsky District of Saint Petersburg, built with an island platform serving two tracks deep underground. It takes its name from the avenue above it and sits on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya line.
The ground where the station was built was home to a military airfield that operated for much of the 20th century until the 1960s. When the station opened in the 1990s, its designers drew on that aviation past to shape the decoration inside.
The wall mosaics inside the station show folk objects like samovars and balalaikas alongside aviation motifs that reference the site's past as an airfield. These images are part of what passengers see every day as they walk through the corridors.
The station sits very deep underground, so it is worth allowing extra time for the escalator rides up and down. At street level, several bus and tram routes connect to different parts of the city.
Until 2011, this was the deepest station in the Saint Petersburg metro network before other stations took over that position. The combination of folk art and aviation imagery in the same decoration is something not found in other stations on the network.
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