Bridges in Saint Petersburg

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The bridges in Saint Petersburg are an important part of the road infrastructure in the Russian city. According to the city council of Saint Petersburg, there are around 580 bridges in the city area . If the bridges of the suburbs and parks are also included, the number rises to over 800. The center of the city is located on four large islands, which are surrounded by the Great Neva (left main arm) and four other watercourses in an almost circular manner. The Neva (Cyrillic Нева) is the 74-kilometer-long outflow from Lake Ladoga into the Baltic Sea . Saint Petersburg is at this mouth.

Opened middle field of the castle bridge

The other waters in the city are the Moika , the Griboyedov Canal (with the Krivuscha; 21 bridges), the Fontanka and the Obvodny Canal (to the Jekateringofka). The Smolenka and the Zhdanovka flow into the Kleine Neva, the right branch of the Neva.

The Little Neva is crossed by two bridges: the Stock Exchange Bridge and the Tuchkov Bridge. The same goes for the Great Neva : the Castle Bridge and the Blagoveschensky (to Vasilyevsky Island ) lead over it . The Russian word for bridge is most (kyr. Мост; it is often, but not always, added after the name).

The more famous bridges cross the waterways, many of which are still bascule bridges . Tsar Peter's town planning idea for the planned town named after his namesake was a ship town , which is therefore mainly developed by ship traffic. In his eyes bridges were only a makeshift means of the inevitable land traffic.

The first bridge, still a wooden bascule bridge, is mentioned in 1705. The youngest bridge will open in January 2012. Eight bridges over the Neva as well as five bridges over the Little Neva and the Great Newka are open to shipping every night from April to October for several hours and thus closed to road traffic. In the remaining months Eisgang deals with the question of whether ship or land transport has priority.


Old map of the city center (1954)

The longest bridge in the city is the modern Great Obuchov Bridge with a length of 2,824 meters. It is the only one of the nine Neva bridges that, because it is a suspension bridge with a high passage, does not have to be reopened for shipping. The widest bridge is the Blue Bridge, which is located in the city center (width 97.3 meters). The Greifenbrücke , 1.8 meters wide, is the narrowest bridge . Many bridges had to be rebuilt after the siege of Leningrad after the Second World War.

Lists

The most famous bridges

A - J

Greifenbr./Bankowski most
Lomonosov Bridge


Lion bridge, holder of the tension cable

K - Z

Railroad bridges

  • Bolshoi Sampsoinewski Bridge
  • Finland Railway Bridge
  • Lachtinski Bridge
  • Lanski Station Bridge
  • Liteyny Bridge, Sestroretsk (not to be used with o.)
  • Zavodskaya Sestra Bridge

More bridges by alphabet

A very incomplete list
(partly in English spelling, as the English version differs significantly from the German transliteration. On (non-Cyrillic) maps, the English spelling is more likely to be used.)

A - J

  • Alarchin Bridge
  • Alexander Nevsky Bridge (see above)
  • Anichkov Bridge (see above)
  • Bank bridge (see above)
  • Belinskogo Bridge
  • Blagoveshchenskiy Bridge (see above)
  • Blue bridge (see above)
  • Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge (see above)
  • Bolshoy Konyushenny Bridge
  • Dekabristov Bridge
  • Demidov Bridge
  • Egyptian Bridge (see above)
  • First Engineers Bridge
  • First Sadovy Bridge
  • Green Bridge (see above)
Ioannovsky Bridge, detail
  • Grenadiers Bridge
  • Hermitage bridge
  • Ioannovsky Bridge (to the Peter and Paul Fortress )
  • Italy Bridge (see above)
  • Izmailovsky Bridge

K - R

  • Kamennoostrovsky Bridge
  • Kamenny Bridge
  • Kantemirovsky Bridge
  • Kazansky Bridge (see above)
  • Kharlamov Bridge
  • Khrapovitsky Bridge
  • Kokushkin Bridge (Kokushkin Pereulok)
  • Kolomensky Bridge
  • Krasnoarmeysky Bridge
  • Krasnoflotsky Bridge
  • Krasnogvardeysky Bridge
  • Kronverkskiy Bridge (to the Peter and Paul Fortress )
  • Leshtukov Bridge
  • Lion Bridge (see above)
ZSD at the Krestovsky Stadium
  • Lomonosov Bridge (see above)
  • Malo Kalinkin Bridge
  • Maly Konyushenny Bridge
  • Mogilevsky Bridge
  • Muchnoy Bridge
  • Nishne-Lebijahij most (Lower Schwanenbr.)
  • Novo Konyushenny Bridge
  • Novo Nikolsky Bridge
  • Obukhovsky Bridge
  • Palace Bridge (Schlossbr; see above)
  • Panteleimonovsky Bridge
  • Pevchesky Bridge
  • Pikalov Bridge
  • Pochtamtsky Bridge (Post Office Bridge)
  • Podyachesky Bridge (Red Bridge)
  • Potseluev Bridge (see above)
  • Prachechny Bridge

S - Z

  • Sampsonievsky Bridge
  • Semenovsky Bridge
Stroganovsky most
  • Sennoy Bridge
  • Staro Kalinkin Bridge
  • Stoliarny Pereulok
  • Stroganovsky Bridge
  • Teatralny Bridge
  • Trinity Bridge (see above)
  • Tuchkov Bridge (see above)
  • Volodarsky Bridge (see above)
  • Voznesensky Bridge
  • Second Sadovy Bridge
  • ZSD, western bypass motorway with a bridge over the Korabelny Canal into the Finnl. Bay of the Baltic Sea in front of St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Bridges in St. Petersburg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Regina Elsner, Feb. 2012 (web links)
  2. ↑ Even if it was not accepted, the master plan by Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond , the architect of the tsar, shows the ideas of the time as ideal
  3. ↑ The bridge at structurae.de
  4. ↑ The bridge at structurae.de
  5. ↑ de: Second garden book; the bridge at structurae.de
  6. ↑ to the example the bridge over the Korabelny Canal (at structurae.de)