West Artillery Bridge

Western Artillery reinforced concrete bridge stretches across the Kronverk duct near the Military History Museum of Artillery. The bridge was built in 1976-1978, the engineer and creator of the bridge project was Levin together with the architect Govorkovsky. The single-span bridge of the beam structure has decorative arches and granite facing. The bridge is 29.5 meters long and 20.4 meters wide. The Western Artillery Bridge is intended for pedestrian and automobile traffic through the Kronverk Strait, you can find the bridge on the embankment of the same name, passing between Troitskaya Square and Kronverksky Avenue in the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg. On the right bank of the Kronwerk Strait in the XIX century there were two wooden bridges leading through the defense moat from the West and East. In the 1970s, a transport highway was created, running along the embankment of the Kronverk Strait. Then there was a need for the construction of the Western Artillery Railway Bridge.