Аннотация:The railway station, being the first location of the city where people who come to this city get, must have a high-quality information and navigation infrastructure. At the same time, this requirement is a special case of the requirement within the framework of the concept of “Universal Design” about the information content of the urban environment. One of the three main types of information (along with tactile and acoustic) is visual, the most widely represented in the urban environment. The object of this study was the railway station areas of the largest cities, the subject – their visual information and communication field. Within the framework of the article, it was important to identify the characteristic problems and the main modern trends in the design of information and navigation systems of urban space near railway stations and to determine the degree of their compliance with the requirements of “Universal Design” on information content. To achieve this goal, the European and Russian experience of implementing visual navigation systems in the urban environment of railway station territories was analyzed, as well as some principles and techniques for working with such systems near railway stations were proposed.