ЭТ2М-123 (ET2M) commuter train on the Ladoga railway terminal of St Petersburg

            the Ladozhsky vokzal (Ladoga railway station) of the October railway is the newest big railway terminal of St Petersburg designed by architect Nikita Yavein built at 2001-2003 already after USSR breakage. But in the Soviet time, at the end of the 1980s alredy were formed Initial plans for its construction intended to replace the Varshavsky station. Varshavsky vokzal is a former railway station at the initial station of the Peterburgo-Varshavskaya railroad (since 1907 - Northwestern Railway) in St. Petersburg opened in 1860 and closed to 2001. At present it  is an architectural monument, reconstructed into a giant food court with some shopping and entertainment areas. Now the Ladozhsky vokzal serves routes to the north and east off the city previously served by Moskovsky railway station, as well as some lines previously served by Finland Station, Vitebsky station and Baltiysky station. 

General station appearance refers to the historical The Old Ladoga fortress loacted near the Ladoga lake on the Volkhov river, the first north Russian fortress founded by legendary Rurik, the normann and first Russian knyaz, on the historical route from Baltic to the Black sea.

The Ladoga terminal occupied location of the historical Dacha Dolgorukova local station in St Petersburg worked on of the Volkhovstroevskoe direction of the Oktyabrskaya railway, so the right name of the station still is the Dacha Dolgorukova.

ЭТ2 (ET2, Electric (train of) Torzok second generation) and improved ЭТ2М (ET2M, ET2 Modernised) DC electric commuter trains were built by the Torzkovsky carriage plant (Торжокский вагоностроительный завод) located in Torzhok city of Tver region at 1993-2010. ET2 design was in general based on the original project of the ER2 family of trains developed and built in Soviet Latvia by the RVR (Rīgas Vagonbūves Rūpnīca, Riga, Latvia). 26 commuter trains of ET2 model and 109 ones of modernised ET2M were built in the ten-car configuration.

Taken in: Russia / Leningrad Oblast / Malaya Yablonovka (show map)

Taken on: June 28, 2021

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Camera: Pentax K-5, f/6.3, 1/160 sec, 19mm (=28mm), ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Pentax K-5
Lens:	SIGMA 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC MACRO OS HSM C013
Aperture:	f/6.3
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	19mm (35mm equivalent: 28mm)
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Saturation:	High
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 (Windows)
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