Crosses Neva River Design Bascule bridge Opened 23 December 1916 Body of water Neva River | Width 27.8 metres Total length 260 m Bridge type Bascule bridge | |
Architects Andrey Pshensitsky, Roman Meltzer Similar Neva River, Trinity Bridge - Saint Pet, Blagoveshchensky Bridge, Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exc, Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge | ||
Opening of palace bridge over the neva river in saint petersburg russia
Palace Bridge (Russian: Дворцо́вый мост, Dvortsoviy Most), a road- and foot-traffic bascule bridge, spans the Neva River in Saint Petersburg between Palace Square and Vasilievsky Island. Like every other Neva bridge (except for Big Obukhovsky Bridge), it is drawn by night, making foot travel between various parts of the city virtually impossible. It was built by the French firm Société de Construction des Batignolles between 1912 and 1916.
Contents
- Opening of palace bridge over the neva river in saint petersburg russia
- Map of Dvortsovyy most Sankt Peterburg Russia
- The opening of the palace bridge in st petersburg
- History
- Drawing mechanism
- References
Map of Dvortsovyy most, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia
The total length of Palace Bridge is 260.1 metres, width is 27.8 metres. It is actually composed of five spans, the southernmost joining Palace Embankment between the Winter Palace and the Admiralty and leading to Palace Square.
The opening of the palace bridge in st petersburg
History
After Emperor Nicholas I lifted Peter the Great's prohibition to construct bridges across the Neva, a temporary pontoon bridge was set up about 50 metres downstream from the current structure.
Construction of the cast-iron bridge was started in 1912 to designs by Andrey Pshenitsky, but the work was delayed by World War I and the bridge was not opened to the public until December 23, 1916. The history leading up to the construction of this bridge was tortuous with 54 proposed designs rejected between 1901 and 1911. The design was subject to strict controls so as to prevent the bridge from obstructing the view from Palace Embankment towards Kunstkammer, Imperial Academy of Arts, and other structures on Vasilievsky Island.
A year after its inauguration, the bridge was renamed Republican Bridge (Russian: Республика́нский мост), but the original name was restored in 1944. Various improvements and embellishments of the structure continued well into the Soviet times. In 1967, the bridge was repaired. The tramway tracks were removed in 1998.
Drawing mechanism
The engine which opens up 700 ton of each bridge flights consists of motors, huge gears (some of which are still the original ones) and thousand-ton counterweights. The mechanism works reliably, but sometimes small incidents occur. In October 2002 one of the gear teeth broke off: consequently the drawing was halted in the middle, and ship passage was delayed.