Andreevsky pedestrian bridge

In 1999, in connection with the construction of the third transport ring in Moscow, the old Andreevsky railway bridge across the Moscow River was moved downstream and installed on specially prepared supports in the area of the Gorky Culture Park and reconstructed into a pedestrian bridge that connected the Neskuchny Garden with the Frunzenskaya embankment. The bridge was built according to the project of engineer Proskuryakov. In the process of reconstruction, the bridge was supplemented with elements of interface with the banks. So, from the left bank for the descent to the Frunze embankment were made stairs and escalators. This bridge is more monumental than the first two, it has both a covered glass and an open part. A monument of engineering art, St. Andrew’s Bridge has been partially preserved: in the updated object you can see a historical openwork arch 135 meters long, stone supports topped with “cones”, and former shore spans. They were added a new lobby from the 1st Frunzenskaya Street and an overpass about 200 meters long, forming a descent from the bridge towards Leninsky Prospekt and Pushkinskaya embankment. The old and new parts of the building are painted in different colors and contrast favorably with each other. This bridge resembles a ship on which you can walk both on the open deck and on the closed, that is, under a glass roof. One thing is sad – there is not a single bench throughout the bridge, so you will have to stand up to admire the views of Moscow. There really is something to see! Downstream of the river from the bridge there is a beautiful view of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the towers of the Kremlin, high-rise buildings, up to the Andreevsky monastery, the Moscow State University on the Sparrow Hills, the new building of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the alignment of the bridge you can see the famous Shukhov Tower, and in front of it you can guess the domes of the Church of the Painting of the Lord (1701), which is on Donskaya Street. Due to the large cramping of the construction site, the close location of neighboring buildings and the need to perform work with the preservation of existing green spaces, the support was founded on 111 drilling piles of ERST with a drilling diameter of 180 mm, which were performed in the shortest possible time with small-sized equipment. From the side of the Neskuchny Garden, the entrance to the bridge is decorated in the form of pergolas made of wood, which stands on the foundation of 27 drill injection piles of ERST with a drilling diameter of 250 mm. The piles are made of fine-grained concrete that meets the requirements of the project as for transport construction facilities: class B25, frost resistance F300. Concrete was prepared by GEO-RIT LLC directly on the construction site.