2nd Elagin Bridge

The 2nd Elagin Bridge passes through Sredne Nevka, connecting Elagin and Krestovsky Islands. The bridge is a continuation of Rukhina Street, and its length is 141 meters, a width of 14.5 meters. On the site of the Second Yelagin Bridge was previously the ninth floating bridge of St. Petersburg in 1821. If you look at Schubert’s plan, you can see that on the site of the 2nd Elagin there is a flat-out bridge.

In 1852, a wooden 11-span beam bridge was built here, which had a drawable central span. The bridge was partially rebuilt, all wooden elements were replaced with metal and new supports were installed according to Blazevic’s project. After this reconstruction, the bridge became eight-span and only in 1990 the bridge became fully pedestrian, and the remaining wooden elements were completely replaced by iron-concrete and metal. This reconstruction was carried out according to the Vasilyeva project. According to the approved concept in 2007, the bridge is planned to be reconstructed in 2015. Reconstruction will end with the change of the bridge design to non-diluting.