Youth Bridge
Description:
A youth bridge is installed across the Karpovka River in St. Petersburg. It connects the Petrograd and Pharmacy Islands at the mouth of Karpovka along the Sand Embankment and the embankment of Admiral Lazarev. The bridge was built in 1976 by the project of engineer A.A. Sokolov and architect A.V. Govorkovsky. It got its name from the nearby Youth Palace, built simultaneously with it. On both sides at the entrance to the bridge installed floor lamps with lamps in the form of octagonal prisms. On the shore of Malaya Nevka near the bridge is a monumental relief "Youth", made by sculptor V.G. Stamov.