Kuopion rautatieympäristöt

Kuopio railway station building with its imposing platform canopies represents the railways' 1930s architecture, the transitional period from Classicism to Functionalism. It is characterised by a light, smooth rendered surface without decorative motifs and a monopitch roof. In the facade's window division, the dominant feature is a high central hall — a passage space — on either side of which the functions were arranged in lower wings.

The station is situated at the edge of the grid-plan area. On the north side of the railway is a bus station completed in 1959. At the area of the first railway station along Pohjolankatunin, several buildings remain, even though the station building itself has been demolished. The decorative station master's house with outbuildings is along the driveway.

The best-preserved part of the station park begins at this lime-tree-lined driveway and continues on its western side. In the park area there is a second residential building with outbuildings and a decorative well structure, and further to the west a former district garden with its ruined greenhouses.

East of the driveway is the area of the VR Kuopio workshop. South of the railway is Kuopio County Prison. Along Pohjolankatunin there are also VR's residential buildings side by side from different periods. The strongly rising slope separates the park and residential areas from the workshop area. The station park has trees over one hundred years old, which have grown 14–16 metres tall: field maples, oaks, small-leaved limes, Wych elms.