Vyborg old railway station

The Vyborg (Viipuri) railway station built in 1913 was the second railway station built in Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland (presently located in Leningrad Oblast, Russia). The station, which had replaced Vyborg's first railway station was almost completely destroyed in 1941 during the Continuation War, and only the part that had acted as a cargo office remains. The present Vyborg railway station was built in 1953. The romantic nationalist building designed by Herman Gesellius was located on the northern end of the station square in the Repola district. It bore a close resemblance to the Helsinki Central railway station, finished six years later, which was designed by Eliel Saarinen who worked in the same architectural bureau as Gesellius. For example, both buildings had a similar high curved part above the main entrance, and similarly to the Helsinki station, the Vyborg station also had granite sculptures on pilasters on its facade. The Vyborg station was technically very modern; for example, it had machine-working air conditioning.