History Of St. Petersburg Bridges | Travel stories and photos - Part 2

History of St. Petersburg bridges

One of symbolical names of St.-Petersburg – Northern Venice. In Petersburg exists more than 40 waterways and more than 300 bridges. It is impossible to tell about all bridges, the rivers and channels of St.-Petersburg. Only a few have therefore been mentioned – those with a particularly eventful history or those of distinctive construction or architectural features.

Bridges near the Summer gardens

Bridges near the Summer gardens

11 февраля 2007

Down to the middle of the eighteenth century only timber was used in St. Petersburg for bridges and embankments. In the 1720s, it is true, Peter I did have a masonry embankment-the city’s first-built around a small boat basin in the Summer Gardens, next to the Summer Palace and the Fontanka.

St. Petersburg first bridges

St. Petersburg first bridges

11 февраля 2007

St. Petersburg was founded on May 16 (27), 1703, when the corner-stone of the future Peter and Paul Fortress was laid on Hares’ (Zayachy) Island. Simultaneously the construction of timber dwellings started on the right bank of the Neva, on Gorodovoy Island which now forms part of the so-called Petrograd Side.

City of bridges

City of bridges

11 февраля 2007

If Saint-Petersburg is known as the City of Bridges, there is every reason for the name, for sixty-eight rivers, canals and creeks criss-cross it in all directions, cutting it up into forty-two islands, large and small.

Photos of St. Petersburg bridges

Photos of St. Petersburg bridges

1 марта 2006 — 4 responses

Photos of most beautiful St. Petersburg bridges.