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River Moika
Read more...Flowed out of a swamp near the Field of Mars (early 18th century). Joined to the Anonymous Creek to the south of the Summer Garden (1711). Originally called the Mya after the Izhorian word for “mire....
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River Fontanka
Read more...Source of the River Neva known as the Anonymous Creek (until 1712–14). Intersects the city centre. Flows out of the River Neva at the Summer Garden and back into it to the north of Gutuyev Island. So...
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Kryukov Canal
Read more...Dug between the River Fontanka and the River Moika by Semyon Kryukov (1719–20). Named the Kryukov Canal (1738). Granite embankments were built (1801–07). Section between the River Neva and the Admira...
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Griboyedov Canal
Read more...Originally called the Catherine Canal. Created at the suggestion of engineer Illarion Golenischev-Kutuzov, who presented Empress Elizabeth Petrovna with a project for a “canal for saving the inhabita...
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Winter Canal
Read more...Canal from the River Neva to the River Moika. Dug by Vasily Ozerov to drain the plot of land earmarked for the Winter Palace of Peter the Great (1718–19). Granite embankments and three granite bridge...
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Upper Swan Bridge
Read more...Built at the same time as the granite embankment of the River Neva (1767–68) on the site of the wooden drawbridge (1720s) across the Swan Canal joining the River Neva and the River Moika. Designed by...
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Tuchkov Bridge
Read more...Pontoon bridge across the River Malaya Neva, uniting Vasilyevsky Island and the Petersburg Side (late 1750s). Named after the nearby timber yards of merchant Abraham Tuchkov. Replaced by a wooden mult...
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Trinity Bridge
Read more...Joined the Summer Garden to the Petersburg (now Petrograd) Side. Stone piles for the pontoon Trinity (Suvorov) Bridge were laid (1824–27), replacing the floating Resurrection Bridge further upstream....
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Stroganov (Floating) Bridge
Read more...Bridge from the Vyborg Side (from the Stroganov Dacha in Novaya Derevnya) to Stone Island (1786–mid-19th century).
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Stone Island Bridge
Read more...Architect Alexander Vist built Stone Island Pontoon Bridge across the River Malaya Nevka, joining Apothecary and Stone Islands (1760). Engineer Agustín de Bétancourt built Russia’s first wooden seven-...
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