Leningradsky Rail Terminal
View from Komsomolskaya Square. To the right from the station is the pavilion leading to the Komsomolskaya-Koltsevaya station of the metro (not shown).
Station statistics
Address	107140, Moscow, Komsomolskaya Square, 3
Coordinates	Coordinates: 55°46′35″N 37°39′18″E / 55.77639°N 37.655°E / 55.77639; 37.655
Other information
Opened	1851
Rebuilt	1903, 1977

Leningradsky Rail Terminal (Russian: Ленингра́дский вокза́л, Leningradsky vokzal) is the oldest of Moscow's nine principal railway stations. Situated on Komsomolskaya Square, the station serves north-western directions, notably Saint Petersburg. International services from the station include Tallinn, Estonia, operated by GoRail, and Helsinki, Finland.

The station was constructed between 1844 and 1851 to an eclectic design by Konstantin Thon as the terminus of the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway, a pet project of Emperor Nicholas I. Regular connection was opened in 1851. Initially it was known as Peterburgsky (ie., Rail Terminal for Petersburg). Upon the Emperor's death five years later, the station was named Nikolayevsky (and the railway Nikolayevskaya) after him and retained this name until 1924, when the Bolsheviks renamed it Oktyabrsky Station (and the railway Oktyabrskaya), to commemorate the October Revolution. The present name was given a year later when the city of Petrograd became Leningrad.

Thon's design follows closely that of the station's counterpart in St. Petersburg. The monotonous regularity of rustication and pilasters is enlivened with Italianate details (ground floor windows strongly reminiscent of the Palazzo Rucellai) and an elegant clocktower at the centre (probably inspired by the Palazzo Senatorio in Rome). Even more rigorous is the exterior of the nearby Moscow Customs House (1844–1852), also by Thon. The interior of the station was modernized and renovated in 1950 and 1972.

Long distance
Train name	Direction
Afanasy Nikitin Афанасий Никитин	St. Petersburg (Moskovsky)
Arktika Арктика	Murmansk
Avrora Аврора	St. Petersburg (Moskovsky)
Dve Stolitsy Две столицы	St. Petersburg (Moskovsky)
ER-200 ЭР-200	St. Petersburg (Moskovsky)
Express Экспресс	St. Petersburg (Moskovsky)
Grand Express Гранд Экспресс	St. Petersburg (Moskovsky)
Il'men' Ильмень	Novgorod
Karelia Карелия	Petrozavodsk
Krasnaya Strela Красная стрела	St. Petersburg (Moskovsky)
Lev Tolstoy Лев Толстой	Helsinki
Megapolis Мегаполис	St. Petersburg (Moskovsky)
Nevsky Express Невский экспресс	St. Petersburg (Moskovsky)
Nikolaevsky Express Николаевский экспресс	St. Petersburg (Moskovsky)
Pskov Псков	Pskov
Severnaya Palmira Северная Пальмира	St. Petersburg (Moskovsky)
Smena Смена	St. Petersburg (Moskovsky)
Tallinn Express Таллинн Экспресс	Tallinn
Yunost Юность	St. Petersburg (Moskovsky)

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