Stalinskaya metro station is an important artery of the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya line, which connected the Baltiyskaya and Kirovsky Zavod, and was of particular importance in the working life of the builders of communism. When developing the project for the construction of the station, the engineers received strict instructions: the station will be named after the leader, which means that it should be especially solemn and majestic, the details of its to demonstrate the everyday work of ordinary citizens and their mentor, Joseph Vissarionovich.

An ordinary passenger, getting into the subway and moving from bas-reliefs with peasant proletarian motifs to the end of the hall, where architects decided to place a mosaic with the image of Stalin against the background of wheat thickets , was to be amazed by the scope of engineering and feel awe for the face on the panel.

But after the 1956 Congress, widespread condemnation of the cult of personality of Stalin led to the curtailment of ideological campaigns, and along with the elimination of propaganda posters and paintings depicting the leader, in 1961 passengers, going down to the subway, found a white marble wall on the place of a familiar mosaic.

The unexpected disappearance of the mosaic gave rise to a legend that the panel was not destroyed, but only laid with marble slabs, and if you look at the marble for a long time and inquisitive, you can see the features of the leader under its layer , tired and faded from time to time, but still preserved.