Vosstaniya Square

From the 1840s to 1918, the square was known as Znamenskaya Square, after the built there between 1794 and 1804 in a Neoclassical design by . 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. In 2010, the Galereya shopping center opened on the square, including a large Stockmann department store. == Transport hub ==

The Vosstaniya Square is a major traffic hub of Saint Petersburg. It is home to the large Moscow Rail Terminal, from where trains depart for Moscow, Novosibirsk and other major cities. It is filled with passengers every day. The square is home to the metro station Ploshchad Vosstaniya. The square is also a main hub for marshrutkas, taxis, buses, trolleybuses and trams. Image:Nevsky znamenka.jpg|View of Nevsky Prospekt from Znamenskaya Square in the 1890s Image:Znamenka.jpg|The Church of the Sign on Znamenskaya Square (built in 1794–1804), demolished in 1940 File:Construction of the tramway junction in Petersburg, 1906.jpg|Construction of the tramway junction, 1906 File:Площадь Восстания.jpg|Under the Soviet regime, 1927 File:Vosstania Square and Oktyabrskaya hotel.JPG|Vosstania Square and Oktyabrskiy hotel (hotel of the October Revolution, before 1922: the Northern hotel) File:Spb 06-2017 img19 Moskovsky railway station.jpg|Moscow Rail Terminal File:Ploshchad Vosstaniya Pityer.JPG|Metro station Ploshchad Vosstaniya ==See also==