Grenadier Bridge
The length of the bridge is 218 meters - three Boeing 747s can easily fit here. The width of the bridge is 27 meters. Any two freight road trains will stand across. This is the fifth version of the structure. The first three bridge structures were wooden, the last two were metal, but all of them could accommodate ships of any height and size.
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Grenadier Bridge
The bridge is named in memory of the Life Guards Grenadier Regiment, whose barracks were located nearby on the left bank of the Bolshaya Nevka.
In the area of the current Grenadier Bridge across the Bolshaya Nevka in 1758, the fifth floating bridge in St. Petersburg was built with an outlet span for the passage of mast ships.
By 1806, it was moved upstream to the place where Sampsonievsky Bridge is now located, and transportation was arranged here. In 1904-1905, a twelve-span wooden beam-braced bridge on piles, called the Grenadier Bridge, was built along approximately the same route.
In its middle part there was a wooden two-winged drawbridge. The routing was carried out using hand winches. vIn 1951, the bridge was rebuilt, and the number of spans reached 18, and the draw spans became metal. In this form it existed until 1971, when, according to the design of engineer B. B. Levin and architects L. A. Noskov, P. A. Areshev, a new metal 3-span bridge with a drawable middle span began to be built 90 meters downstream .
The bridge was put into operation in 1975, but traffic on it was opened in 1974.
The side spans are covered with prestressed and elastically clamped beams. An adjustable single-wing span opens with a fixed axis of rotation. The bridge supports are reinforced concrete, lined with granite blocks in the above-water part. On the right bank there is a transport tunnel adjacent to the bridge, and on the left bank there is the Aptekarsky Bridge across the Karpovka River, built simultaneously with the construction of the Grenadier Bridge.
In the area of the current Grenadier Bridge across the Bolshaya Nevka in 1758, the fifth floating bridge in St. Petersburg was built with an outlet span for the passage of mast ships.
By 1806, it was moved upstream to the place where Sampsonievsky Bridge is now located, and transportation was arranged here. In 1904-1905, a twelve-span wooden beam-braced bridge on piles, called the Grenadier Bridge, was built along approximately the same route.
In its middle part there was a wooden two-winged drawbridge. The routing was carried out using hand winches. vIn 1951, the bridge was rebuilt, and the number of spans reached 18, and the draw spans became metal. In this form it existed until 1971, when, according to the design of engineer B. B. Levin and architects L. A. Noskov, P. A. Areshev, a new metal 3-span bridge with a drawable middle span began to be built 90 meters downstream .
The bridge was put into operation in 1975, but traffic on it was opened in 1974.
The side spans are covered with prestressed and elastically clamped beams. An adjustable single-wing span opens with a fixed axis of rotation. The bridge supports are reinforced concrete, lined with granite blocks in the above-water part. On the right bank there is a transport tunnel adjacent to the bridge, and on the left bank there is the Aptekarsky Bridge across the Karpovka River, built simultaneously with the construction of the Grenadier Bridge.
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