Vyborg Side

Vyborg side is the name of the north-eastern part of the central city which had by the late 19th century developed into an industrial suburb. You can start your excursion from the Finland Railway Station. which faces the Admiralty Side across the Neva. Lenin returned to Russia in April 1917 via this station, and there he made his initial pronouncement of a new course that would bring the Bolsheviks to power. If you are interested in social realism style, you can walk along the Kornsomola str. get to Sverdlovskaya embankment and get acquaintance with the monuments to Frunze and Kalinin. Another walk you could take from the metro station Ploshad Lenina by Pirogov embankment, take a look of Korablik at hotel "Leningrad" and then across the Square of Military Physicians to Botkinskaya str. You finish your walk at Lesnoi prospect near the monu merit of Mugestvu pozharnuch. You can reach the other monuments of Vyborg side from metro stations Ploshad Mugestva. Academicheskaya. Lesnaya, Ozerki and other kinds of transport.