Pulkovo Aero Terminal (1973)

Pulkovo Air Terminal, located at 41a Pulkovskoye Highway, was built in 1973 and was the first in the USSR to separate the flows of departing and arriving passengers. The symmetrical building with alternating curtain panels and narrow windows has two fully glass walls in the departure hall, which were initially devoid of internal partitions. The structure received the nickname "Five Glasses" for the five glass cone-shaped pipes above the roof, resembling faceted glasses. Boarding and disembarking were partially carried out from two satellite pavilions connected to the building by tunnels with the first 170-meter-long travelators in the airports of the USSR.