What Prevents Renaming Devyatkino Station
A proposal to rename Devyatkino metro station to its historical name Komsomolskaya faces legal obstacles as it also requires renaming the railway station, according to experts.
Apr 28, 2026 0
On 4 February, an appeal from deputies of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) to restore the historical name «Komsomolskaya» to Devyatkino metro station was registered in the Legislative Assembly of Leningrad Oblast. However, as toponymist Andrei Ryzhkov explained, changing the name of the metro station requires simultaneously renaming the railway station, which is associated with legal difficulties.
«A railway station is not as easy to rename as a metro station (if it is not just a stopping point or platform); it falls under the law on geographical objects,» says the expert. «The last time this was done was in 2013, when the station »Detskoye Selo« was renamed »Tsarskoye Selo,« which required a government decree.»
The Toponymic Commission seeks to avoid identical names for different facilities. In Kirovsky District of St. Petersburg, there is already a Komsomolskaya Square. According to Dmitry Grafov, author of the «Metro Man» project, the station was originally designed as «Kalininskaya» and received the name «Komsomolskaya» before launch.
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