Kantemirovsky Bridge - sight of St. Petersburg

It is not for nothing that St. Petersburg is called the Northern Venice. The city is one of the first in terms of water quantity, availability and number of rivers (about 90 of them), canals and canals. Bridges in St. Petersburg allow you to navigate in a city divided by the Neva, from one side to another. And each of them is unique in its origin and structure.

One of them - the Kantemirovsky bridge across the Bolshaya Nevka - connects Meditsky Prospect with the Vyborgskaya embankment on the Aptekarsky Island. This is a very broad bridge, which has a three-lane traffic to each side and, which is very significant, there are no traffic jams on it, because the Medikov Avenue goes later in a series of winding streets of the Petrograd side, which are very inconvenient for intensive traffic. In addition to the width, the Kantemirovsky Bridge is also long, more than three hundred meters in length, therefore it is the second of all similar structures of the city. The name Kantemirovsky bridge is due not so much to the adjacent street, as to the station Kantemirovka, which is liberated from the Germans, located in the Voronezh region.

The bridge as a permanent and a drawbridge was erected in the 70s according to the project of the well-known bridge builders B. B. Levin and B. N. Brudno, as well as the architect A. Govorkovsky. Before that, in the 18th century, the architect A. Wist created in it The place of the scaffold bridge, which was the fourth in St. Petersburg. In the early 19 th century it was the first wooden bridge and with an arch built under the leadership of AA Betancourt. Now Kantemirovsky bridge consists of fifteen river spans, two spans over the embankments and two overpasses with garages placed there. At night, the bridge is illuminated by more than three hundred lamps, thus bringing to life the city's magic. On the bridge supports and under it powerful searchlights are strengthened. On the roadway there are beautiful floor lamps, and the entrances to the bridge are decorated with blocks of granite, on which the name of this masterpiece is engraved on metal plates. Admiring the beauty, you can forget that the Kantemirovsky Bridge is a drawbridge, and if you do not jump on the right side in time, you can still walk along the embankment of the opposite side for a long time.

Bridges across the Neva and many other rivers are a kind of museum. It is a landmark of St. Petersburg, in addition to the Hermitage, other palaces and temples. After all, each of the following bridges is not similar to the previous one either by its architecture or its history. That's it. Each bridge has its own history, just like the embankments. They are also not similar to each other in St. Petersburg. And what is very interesting, the bridges are multi-colored: Blue, Green, Red and Yellow. One of them, Blue, quite unusual, is a bridge-square, because it is very wide and is located next to St. Isaac's Square.

All the bridges of St. Petersburg can not be listed, because, including the suburbs of Peterhof, Pavlovsk and others, there are more than eight hundred of them. But, arriving in St. Petersburg, it is worth devoting a few days of excursions to the bridges of this wonderful city.