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Upper Swan Bridge
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 Georg Friedrich von Veldten (?).
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