The Railway Station

1.

The Railway Station
Kutiavina Uliana
Begliarova Ekaterina
11 B

2.

The former building of the Rail-way station was built in
1913 in accordance with the project by Finnish architects
Saarinrn and Geselius, founders of the so-called “new
style” in architecture. Saarinen was among the first
architects to design sky-scrapes in New-York.
Gesellius
Saarinen

3.

The former railway
station was almost an
exact copy of the existing
one in Helsinki, Finland.

4.

•Inside the former building of the
Railway Station

5.

•The old bridge over the railway. This
is how it looked like

6.

•This is what happened

7.

The old building of the railway station and the so-called Pietinens
house opposite it were main components of the adjacent square.
Unfortunately, during the past war it
was laid flat. The new one was
constructed in 1953. The project
was made by a Soviet architect
Speransky and a group of
Leningradian architects.
Pietinen house in 1908.

8.

On the left side of the square the Pietinens house is situated. It
had been planned by architects Young and Bomansson, facades
were decorated by Lindgren.
The building occupied the site opposite the railway station,
and due to the architect’s intention it should become a wise
component of the main entrance to the town.

9.

The house has an inner yard, a nice arch leads into it. Its
exterior look was paid special attention to. The facades
of Pietinen’s house is the one and only preserved work
of the well-known Finnish architect Lindgren.

10.

Picturesque balconies, the shape
and rhythm of its windows and
many other details of
decorations enabled to avoid
monotony and to give a fresh
and original look to the house.
The main façade of the
house is decorated
with the bas-reliefs of
the personages from
the Finnish-Karelian
epos “Kalevala”.