Great Moscow Bridge
Coordinates: 55 ° 44 ′ 56 ″ N , 37 ° 37 ′ 28 ″ E
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| Official name | Большой Москворецкий мост | |
| use | Road traffic | |
| Subjugated | Moskva | |
| place | Moscow | |
| construction | Segmented arch bridge made of reinforced concrete | |
| overall length | 554 m | |
| width | 40 m | |
| Number of openings | 3 | |
| start of building | 1936 | |
| completion | 1937 | |
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The Great Moskva Bridge ( Russian Большой Москворецкий мост Bolshoi Moskworezki most ) is a bridge in Moscow that was opened in 1937 and runs east of the Kremlin across the Moscow River . The bridge is 554 m long and 40 m wide. In 1987 it was used by the private pilot Mathias Rust as a landing pad for his small plane with which he flew from Germany to Moscow.
location
The bridge is located in the street of the old traffic route from Serpukhov to Tver , which, coming from the south, first crosses the water diversion canal with the Small Moscow Bridge , before it crosses the Moscow River with the Large Moscow Bridge. The continuation of the street leads past St. Basil's Cathedral , across Red Square , past the Moscow State Historical Museum , across Manege Square and then becomes Tverskaya Street . The sloping place west of the driveway to the bridge, along the Kremlin wall between St. Basil's Cathedral and the banks of the Moscow River, is called Wassiljewski Spusk (roughly "St. Basil's slope").
history
The bridge is located on the site of one of the oldest river crossings in Moscow. From 1498 there was a floating bridge at this point . It was replaced by a wooden yoke bridge in 1789 . In 1829 a bridge with a wooden superstructure on three stone pillars followed , which burned down in 1870. The superstructure was then replaced by steel arches. In 1936 construction began on today's bridge, which opened in 1937.
As part of the 1980 Summer Olympics , the marathon ran across the bridge.
On May 28, 1987, the private pilot Mathias Rust landed with his Cessna 172 on the northern driveway to the Great Moskva Bridge in the direction of Red Square, from where he rolled out to St. Basil's Cathedral. The flight led from Hamburg via Iceland and Sweden to Moscow. The pilot was arrested by employees of the Soviet secret service KGB after landing .
The opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was murdered on the bridge on February 27, 2015.
Building
Today's bridge comes from the engineer Vladimir Sergejewitsch Kirillow and the architect Alexei Viktorovich Shtusev . The structure has three openings that are spanned with reinforced concrete arches.
Web links
- Structurae-Link: Great Moscow Bridge. In: Structurae
Individual evidence
- ↑ Большой Москворецкий мост. In: Достопримечательности Москвы. Retrieved December 26, 2013 (Russian).
Competition venues for the 1980 Summer Olympics
