Neva River - Bridges

Bridges

Leningrad Oblast:

  • Ladozhsky Bridge – built in 1981 as a movable multi-span metal bridge on stone piers.
  • Kuzminskii railway bridge – built in 1940 as a movable three-segment railway bridge.

St. Petersburg:

  • Big Obukhovsky Bridge – built in 2004 as cable-stayed bridge connecting Obukhovsky Defense avenue with Oktyabrskaya Embankment.
  • Volodarsky Bridge – built in 1936 as a movable concrete bridge connecting Narodnaya and Ivanovo streets.
  • Finland Railway Bridge – built in 1912 as a movable, metallic, double-segment railway bridge to Finland.

St. Petersburg, delta of Neva River

  • Alexander Nevsky Bridge – built in 1965 as a movable concrete bridge connecting Alexander Nevsky Square and Zanevsky Avenue.
  • Peter the Great Bridge – built in 1911 as a movable, three-segment, metal bridge connecting the historic center of St. Petersburg with the Malaya Ohta district.
  • Liteyny Bridge (formerly the bridge of Alexander II) – built in 1879 as a movable, six-segment, arch bridge connecting Liteyny Prospekt with Academician Lebedev Str. and Vyborg.
  • Trinity Bridge (formerly the Kirov bridge) – built in 1903 as a five-segment movable metal bridge connecting Suvorov Square, Trinity Square and Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt.
  • Palace Bridge – built in 1916 as a movable, five-segment, iron bridge. Its opened central span is one the city symbols. Connects Nevsky Prospekt with the Exchange Square and Vasilievsky Island.
  • Blagoveshchensky Bridge (formerly the Lieutenant Schmidt Bridge) – built in 1850 as movable seven-segment iron bridge connecting Labour Square with the 7th Line of Vasilievsky Island.
Kuzminskii railway bridge Big Obukhovsky Bridge Liteyny Bridge Blagoveshchensky Bridge

Construction of the Novo-Admiralteisky Bridge, a movable drawbridge across the river, has been approved, but will not commence before 2011.

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