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Bridge from the Vyborg Side (from the Stroganov Dacha in Novaya Derevnya) to Stone Island (1786–mid-19th century).
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-...
Named after the nearby Church of St Simon and St Anne. One of seven single-model four-turreted bridges built across the River Fontanka (1780s).
Chain bridge built by engineers Wilhelm von Traitteur and Vasily Khristianovich across the River Fontanka (1823–24). Gilded Egyptian ornamentation decorated the iron portals on the approaches. Named ...
St Isaac’s Bridge was named after the nearby St Isaac’s Cathedral and joined the Admiralty district with Vasilyevsky Island. The first floating bridge was built at the command of Prince Alexander Men...
Wooden bascule bridge (1720) was rebuilt and called the Green Bridge after the colour of the paint (1735). Renamed Police Bridge (1777) after the Police Headquarters situated on the corner of Nevsky ...
Palace Bridge joins Palace Passageway and the spit of Vasilyevsky Island. The bridge was built by architect Robert Friedrich Meltzer and engineer Andrzej Pszenicki (1912–16).
First wooden bridge across the River Fontanka near the Finnish village of Kaljola or Kallina (1737). Replaced by a multi-span bridge with a bascule mechanism covering both branches of the river (1752...
Second permanent bridge across the River Neva, joining Liteiny Prospekt and the Vyborg Side. Built by architect Carl Rachau and engineer Amand Struve (1875–79) on the site of a pontoon bridge (1851)....
One of the first stone bridges in the city. Built by architect Ignacio Ludovico Rossi and engineer Timofei Nasonov when creating the granite embankments of the River Moika and River Fontanka (1766–69...