Saint Petersburg

Sampsonian Bridge

Vyborg and Petrograd districts of St. Petersburg

Description:

Sampsonievsky Bridge is located in St. Petersburg on the Neva River, it connects the Petrograd island and the right bank of the Vyborg district. In the nineteenth century, the bridge was called the Vyborg Bridge, and until 1993 - the Freedom Bridge. In 2012, on May 1, the bridge was closed to traffic and until May 27, 2013. The convenience of the Sampsonievsky Bridge is that it makes available fast movement from the Petrograd Embankment and the Finnish Prospect, as well as the Pirogovaya Embankment and Kuibyshev Street. The name of the bridge was given in honor of the Sampsonian Cathedral and the embankment on the right bank of the Big Nevka. Russian engineers Demchenko and Levin made the final reconstruction and reconstruction in 1955-1958, since then the bridge has not undergone any special external changes in its architecture. Starting its history with the Grenadier floating bridge in 1806 and to the modern w / b drawbridge with 7 spans.

Disengagement of the bridge takes place in:

2:10–2:45 and 3:20–4:25

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