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In 1823, a hanging chain bridge was built across the River Ekaterinhofka at Ekaterinhof – the first of its kind in St Petersburg. The bridge was built by engineers Pierre-Dominique Bazaine and Benoît...
Bridge across the River Moika near the Capella. Built by architect Vasily Stasov and engineer Yegor Adam (1839–40) on the site of a wooden joist bridge by Auguste de Montferrand (1834) for allowing t...
The Annunciation Bridge was the first permanent bridge across the River Neva. Decree on the construction of the bridge signed by Tsar Nicholas I (18 November 1841). Built by engineer Stanis?aw Kierbi...
Wooden bascule bridge in the alignment of Nevsky Prospekt (1715). Named after the adjoining Anichkov Sloboda – a neighbourhood erected by a team of workers headed by Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Anichk...
The Resurrection Embankment was laid from the Liteiny Bridge to the Smolny Cathedral (1853–56). Built upon (second half of 19th century). Lined with granite (1853–56).
Laid from Palace Passageway to the River Fontanka (1715). Called Upper Embankment Street and Millionnaya Embankment (1740s–90s). Lined with granite (1763–67). Stretch before the Winter Palace was reb...
Part of Palace Embankment between the River Fontanka and the Liteiny Bridge. Named after the Gagarin Wharf, a hemp warehouse on the right bank of the River Neva on the Petersburg Side (1860s). Rename...
Running along the left bank of the River Neva between the Admiralty and the New Admiralty Canal, the English Embankment was originally called Lower Embankment Street (1738), St Isaac’s or Galernaya (...
Laid from Palace Bridge to the Senate on the former territory of the Admiralty Shipyard. Engineer Andrei Gotman included the Palace and Peter Landing Wharves opposite the eastern and western Admiralt...
Built by Heinrich Stackenschneider on the northern pier of the Annunciation Bridge (1853). Assigned to St Andrew’s Cathedral on Vasilyevsky Island. Contained a mosaic image of St Nicholas created by ...