Vosstaniya Square

59°55′52″N 30°21′43″E / 59.931°N 30.362°E / 59.931; 30.362

Vosstaniya Square (

From the 1840s to 1918, the square was known as Znamenskaya Square, after the Cathedral of the Sign [ru] built there between 1794 and 1804 in a Neoclassical design by Fedor Demertsov [ru]. The church building commemorated the icon of Our Lady of the Sign.

Four years before the Romanov Tercentenary, in 1909, Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy, an artist and sculptor, completed a tremendous equestrian statue of Tsar Alexander III. It stood opposite Nikolayevsky Station in Znamenskaya Square. The statue was removed by the Soviet regime in 1937. It remained in storage for fifty years before its re-erection in 1994 in front of the Marble Palace.^[1]

The square was a scene of many revolutionary demonstrations and protests. After the

In 2010, the 200,000-square-metre (2,200,000 sq ft) Galereya shopping center opened on the square, including a large Stockmann department store.^[3]

Transport hub

The Vosstaniya Square is a major traffic hub of Saint Petersburg. It is home to the large

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  View of

  Nevsky Prospekt

  from Znamenskaya Square in the 1890s
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  The Church of the Sign on Znamenskaya Square (built in 1794–1804), demolished in 1940
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  Construction of the tramway junction, 1906
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  Under the Soviet regime, 1927
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  Vosstania Square and Oktyabrskiy hotel (hotel of the October Revolution, before 1922: the Northern hotel)
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  Moscow Rail Terminal
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  Metro station Ploshchad Vosstaniya

See also

• List of squares in Saint Petersburg

References

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