Great Okhta Bridge

Saint-Petersburg

If Saint-Petersburg is known as the City of Bridges, there is every reason for the name, for sixty-eight rivers, canals and creeks criss-cross it in all directions, cutting it up into forty-two islands, large and small.

Saint-Petersburg bridges are an integral part of its panorama. It’s impossible to imagine Saint-Petersburg without its bridges: one might just as well try to visualize New York without its skyscrapers or Egypt without its piramides.

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New Guy Bridge

Saint-Petersburg

This bridge is a part of ring road around St. Petersburg. Ring isn't finished yet, but it helps to rid the city of traffic jams.

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Troitskiy Bridge

Saint-Petersburg

This tracery metallic bridge is my favourite one in Saint-Petersburg. It consists of five archs, one draw span on the left side and fill dam on the right. This arch bridge was opened in 1903.

In april 1892 the municipal duma announced a competition for the best permanent project of the bridge (there was a temporary one at this place before). The first award (60 000 rubles) was gained Eiffel's firm. Yes! The very Eiffel who has was the architecture of Tour Eiffel in Paris! However the bridge was built by the project of another french firm "Batinielle", which even hasn't taken place in the competetion. Later, altogether, 25 engeneers and 11 architests had been working under the bridge project. The Troitskiy bridge building was any more a political event, since that time was the period of Russia and France rapprochement. That's why not even an emperor Nikolai the Second was presented at the ceremony but a president of France - For, as well.

Nowdays Troitskiy Bridge is one of the biggest bridges under Neva river: its lenght is 578 meters, and the width - 23,5 meters.

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