Stone bridge

The stone bridge is located in St. Petersburg on the Griboyedov Canal along Gorokhovaya Street and borders between the Admiralty and Central districts of the city.

To the metro station "Sadovaya" ("Hay") 500 meters. Previously, the vault, foundations and some other components of the bridge were made in stone, from which the bridge bears such a name, before it, bridges in St. Petersburg were built mainly wooden.

The stone bridge was built in 1766-1776 and is considered one of the oldest in St. Petersburg, its project was developed by engineer V.I. Nazimov, I.N. Borisov.

The vault of the bridge is made of granite, and in shape resembles a parabola, the foundations are made of a mudstone, the facing of the facades is granite. In the summer of 1880, the revolutionaries laid dynamite to undermine the crew of Emperor Alexander II, but due to uncertainty about the sufficient amount of explosives, the assassination attempt did not take place here. Already in the spring of 1881, after the death of the emperor, 7 poods of dynamite were extracted from the bottom of the canal during the investigation in the “case of sixteen”.

Stone Bridge is an architectural monument of the XVIII century, which is protected in St. Petersburg.