Kantemirovsky Bridge

Kantemirovsky Bridge Кантемировский мост
Kantemirovsky Bridge Panorama
Coordinates	59°58′43″N 30°19′19″E / 59.978506°N 30.3219°E / 59.978506; 30.3219
Carries	Motor vehicles, trolleybuses, pedestrians
Crosses	Bolshaya Nevka River
Locale	Saint Petersburg, Russia
Named for	Kantemirovskaya Street (Saint Petersburg)
Maintained by	Mostotrest Saint Petersburg bridge maintenance trust
Website	en.mostotrest-spb.ru/bridges/kantemirovskij
Preceded by	Rowing boat link
Next downstream	Ushakovsky Bridge
Characteristics
Design	Bascule bridge
Material	Steel, concrete, granite, asphalt
Total length	664 m (2,178 ft)
Width	32.3 m (106 ft)
Longest span	43 m (141 ft)[1]
No. of spans	15
History
Architect	V. M. Ivanov & A. V. Govorkovsky
Designer	Lengiproinzhproject institute
Engineering design by	B. N. Brudno & B. B. Levin
Construction start	1979
Inaugurated	1982
Location

Kantemirovskiy Bridge^[2] (Russian: Кантемировский мост) is a large modern^[3] (built in 1979 - early 1980s) drawbridge (bascule bridge)^[2] in Saint Petersburg, Russia across the Bolshaya Nevka^[3] arm of the Neva river. The bridge connects the northern Aptekarsky Island (Apothecary Island) of the north-central Petrogradsky District on Petrograd Side with northeastern Vyborgskiy District of the city and over it with the northeast and east of Saint Petersburg. It receives automobile traffic from Bolshoy Prospekt (Petrograd Side) via ^[4] in the southwest and takes it to Kantemirovskaya Street on the right-hand riverside, after which it was named. The street itself was named in 1952 after the railway station of a settlement of Kantemirovka in Voronezh region which was liberated from Nazi Germany troops by the Soviet Red Army in December 1942, which was a military achievement. The settlement in its turn was named after its 18 century owner Dimitrie Cantemir and his brother Constantin, Moldavian princes given shelter in Russia after a military defeat and entered into Russian nobility.

The bridge entrance from the east Vyborg Side with the Saint Petersburg Television Tower on the opposite side of the Greater Nevka on Aptekarsky Island and office buildings on the right

History[]

It was built in 1979-82^[4][3] as a part of a citywide thoroughfare street chain project at a place without a previous bridge:

Previously, there was no bridge link here. The need to build a new bridge arose because of the construction of an internal transport highway in the city, which starts from Tsiolkovsky Street, runs along the northern side of the Obvodny Canal with access to Alexander Nevsky Bridge and then along Zanevsky Prospect to the bridge across the Okhta River in the alignment of Energetikov Avenue, then along Annikov Avenue to Kantemirovskaya Street, in the alignment of which Kantemirovsky Bridge is located, and then across Aptekarsky Island to the Petrograd Side to the area of Kamennoostrovsky Bridge.

— Committee for the development of transport infrastructure of St. Petersburg City Administration, Кантемировский мост, Kantemirovskiy bridge. Website of Committee for the development of transport infrastructure of St. Petersburg

There used to be a boat connection in its place since early 19 century.^[4]

Neighborhood objects of interest[]

Petrograd Side[]

• Saint Petersburg TV Tower, the tallest structure of the city from the 1960s until the completion of the Gazprom office skyscraper Lakhta Center.

Saint Petersburg Television Tower

• Pyotr Stolypin assassination attempt obelisk^[5] on the site of his country house
• Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden

• St Petersburg Museum of Avant-garde (Matyushin's House)^[6] (see Avant-garde, Mikhail Matyushin), a branch of State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg (Rus.Музей петербургского авангарда).
  

  Matushin house
• Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University^[7] with physicist co-inventor of the radio Professor Alexander Popov's Museum^[8] Apartment and Laboratory in the street named after him.

Electrotechnical University

• Museum of the History of Photography (MHP)^[9] (Rus. Музей истории фотографии).

Vyborg Side[]

Vyborgskaya Embankment

• Higher School of Economics Saint Petersburg campus red brick building^[10] converted from a textile^[11] mill^[12] (Rus. pre-1917 Никольская мануфактура; Voronin, Lutz and Chesher Co. weaving building; in the Soviet times nationalised as "Красный маяк" (Krasniy mayak "Red Lighthouse").
• In front of it a modern sculpture of a red sitting human^[13] created by^[14] a local artist and designer,^[15] enthusiast of street art Andrey Lublinskiy (Russian: Андрей Люблинский) on his contract from Higher School of Economics, at whose another Saint Petersburg address he also teaches,^[16] with more of his sculptures placed at both locations. Such sculptures of his have been copied and / or installed^[15] elsewhere from Samara city on Volga and Perm city^[17] in the Urals to China, sometimes without the author's knowledge.^[14]

See also[]

• List of bridges in Saint Petersburg

Reading[]

• Бунин М. С. (1986). Мосты Ленинграда. Очерки истории и архитектуры мостов Петербурга — Петрограда — Ленинграда. Л.: Стройиздат.
• Горбачевич К. С., Хабло Е. П. (1996). Почему так названы?. p. 103.
• Sindalovskiy, Naum (1997). Городские имена сегодня и вчера. p. 54.
• Новиков Ю. В. (1991). Мосты и набережные Ленинграда. Л.: Лениздат. Сост. П. П. Степнов.

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