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Kazan Bridge

Built by engineers Vladimir Nazimov and Illarion Golenischev-Kutuzov (1765–66) when laying the Catherine Canal on the site of the earlier wooden bridge (1716). Luigi Rusca widened the bridge to its m...

Hermitage Bridge

Stone bridge across the Winter Canal. Built at the same time as the granite embankments along the River Neva (1763–66) on the site of the original wooden drawbridge (1718–20). Oldest stone bridge in ...

Ekaterinhof Bridge

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...

Choral Bridge

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...

Annunciation Bridge

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...

Anichkov Bridge

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...

Resurrection Embankment

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).

Palace Embankment

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...

Gagarin Embankment

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...

English Embankment

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 (...

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