The station was opened on November 15, 1955, as part of the first phase of the metro line "Avtovo" — "Ploshchad Vosstaniya." It is named after its location in the historic Narvskaya Zastava district. The pavilion is located on Stachek Square (formerly Narvskaya Square), where the Narva Triumphal Gates stand. Some sources claim that the station was supposed to be named "Stalinskaya." This is incorrect information: such a name was never considered and does not appear in any drawings. There were options like "Stachek Square" and "Narva Gates," but Stalin's name was never included. According to another version, this myth arose from a mosaic panel of Stalin located at the end of the station towards "Prospekt Veteranov," which was dismantled after Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin's cult of personality. Nevertheless, the current "Semyonovskaya" station on the Arbat-Pokrovskaya line of the Moscow Metro actually bore that name.

On the end wall of the central underground hall, there was originally a large mosaic panel titled "Stalin on the Podium," created by the president of the Academy of Arts, A. M. Gerasimov. Initially, a bust of Stalin was planned to be installed against the colorful background. In 1961, after the 22nd Congress of the CPSU, the panel was dismantled, and the space in front of it was closed off with a marble false wall. The enclosed space was first used as a meeting hall, later converted into the linear drivers' point of the Avtovo depot, which remains there to this day. Rumors occasionally surface that the mosaic has been preserved, but in reality, it was completely destroyed.

The above-ground pavilion of the Narvskaya metro station, view of the ticket hall. Architects A. V. Vasiliev, D. S. Goldgor, S. B. Speransky, 1950.

"It is not excluded that Russia itself will be the country to pave the way to socialism... We must discard the outdated notion that only Europe can show us the way." These words, spoken by Stalin in August 1917, were meant to adorn the above-ground pavilion of the Narvskaya metro station.

On December 15, 2011, the station was included by the Council for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage in the unified state register of cultural heritage sites of regional significance.

The Narvskaya metro station is listed in the unified state register of cultural heritage sites of regional significance. Narvskaya is the most richly decorated station of the St. Petersburg Metro with sculptures: 48 sculptural groups (12 themes repeated 4 times each) are installed on the pylons. The theme of the artistic decoration is the labor valor of the Soviet people; the sculptures depict workers of various professions.

The track walls and pylons are faced with white marble. The floor of the central hall is laid with red granite and framed by a complex geometric pattern of black and white stone. The platforms were previously covered with asphalt, which was recently replaced with gray granite.

In the above-ground vestibule of the station, above the escalator entrance, there is a sculptural bas-relief composition titled "Glory to Labor!" in which the central figure is missing. If you look closely, you can see that the people are looking toward the center of the composition, but no one is there. Stalin was supposed to be there.

The authors of the sculptural composition are sculptors G. V. Kosov, A. G. Ovsyannikov, V. G. Stamov, A. P. Timchenko.

The station appears in Vladimir Berezin's post-apocalyptic novel "Waymarks." According to the novel, a gang of "flyers" bandits occupy Narvskaya, emphasizing their name by wearing pilot-style jackets.

Sources:

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Нарвская_%28станция_метро%29

https://www.metrowalks.com/ru/petersburg/kirovsko-vyborgskaya/narvskaya

https://samiznaetekto.livejournal.com/116129.html