Blue Bridge across the Obvodkanal
Russia, St. Petersburg, Kronstadt district
Description:
The Blue Bridge is located across the Obvodny Canal in the Kronstadt district of St. Petersburg. This is a transport and pedestrian bridge over which Makarovskaya Street is laid. It was built in 1801 and has been repaired twice in its history. The bridge is famous for the attached Kronstadt footstock, installed in 1840. From its "zero" measured depths and heights in Russia. The perillas of the bridge are painted blue, perhaps because of this and fixed its name.
On the building there is a monument to the prickly fish, as well as a memorial plaque on which the water level during the flood of 1824 is captured.
