The Committee for State Control, Use, and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments (KGIOP) of St. Petersburg has recognized the complex of buildings at Warsaw Station as a cultural heritage site of regional significance. The main station building, the reservoir, the locomotive depot, and the tool shop have been granted this status.
Warsaw Station was built in 1852-1853 according to a design by architect K.A. Skarzhinsky for the railway from the capital to Gatchina. In 1857-1860 , architect P.O. Salmanovich built a new building to expand the station. The metal frame with glass filling, which covered the entire opening of the boarding platforms, corresponded to the advanced engineering trends of the 19th century, but proved to be expensive to operate and was polluted by locomotive smoke.
In 1859, a road was built to Pskov. On December 15, 1862, traffic to Warsaw was opened. It was from here that trains departed from St. Petersburg to Europe, including the Nord-Express, celebrated by Nabokov.