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Tuchkov Bridge

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...

Trinity Bridge

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....

Stroganov (Floating) Bridge

Bridge from the Vyborg Side (from the Stroganov Dacha in Novaya Derevnya) to Stone Island (1786–mid-19th century).

Stone Island Bridge

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-...

St Simon Bridge

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).

St Panteleimonos Bridge

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 (Floating) Bridge

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...

Police (Green) Bridge

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

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).

Old Kalinkin Bridge

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...

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