Station Petrozavodsk-Passazhirskiy is part of the Oktyabrskaya Railway (OZhD) and is located in the capital of the Republic of Karelia. In the post-war years, in accordance with the general development plan of the city in 1945, it was moved from Golikova Street closer to the center - to Lenin Avenue.
In this regard, Lentransproekt (since 1951 - Lengiprotrans) has developed a project for a new railway station, including track development, a locomotive depot, automation, telemechanics and communication systems, water supply, heat supply, power supply, electrification, logistics with a full range of engineering surveys. The station complex was located on a relief with a significant difference in the levels of the station square (since 1961 - Yu. Gagarin) and the apron, which made it possible to separate the waiting areas and operating rooms.
The station was commissioned in 1955. At that time, it was considered the largest and most beautiful on the Kirov railway (in 1959 it was included in the structure of the OZD). Its building is made in the style of late neoclassicism and is decorated with a tower with a seventeen-meter spire. The main building, 82 m long, ends with side projections. The architectural solution was noted with gratitude from the Office of Architecture under the Council of Ministers of the Karelo-Finnish SSR.
Later, work on the object, in particular, the development of the station and depot facilities, as well as communications, were continued by the specialists of Lengiprotrans in 1965-1966, 1985, 1990-993 and 2005-2008. During these periods, all the fundamental architectural decisions taken earlier were still preserved.
