Khrapovitsky Bridge
The bridge connects Pisarev Street and the embankment of the Admiralty Canal. Although it has a classic "industrial" design typical of late socialist times, its location makes it interesting. Here the rays of the Moika River and the Admiralty Canal, which goes around the island of New Holland, converge. Adjacent to them is the Novo-Admiralteysky Canal, which after a few hundred meters flows into the main Neva fairway.
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Khrapovitsky Bridge
Khrapovitsky stands among the bridges of St. Petersburg that have a very large number of names.
In 1737, a crossing was built in this place, which was called the Yellow Bridge.
At that time, several structures of the same type were thrown across the Moika, and so that the population would not be confused, they were painted in different colors and given appropriate names. Today, many tourists walking around the center of St. Petersburg one way or another end up on the Blue, Red and Green bridges on the Moika River.
Not far from the Yellow Bridge there was a Galernaya shipyard, which, however, was already moved to Vasilievsky Island in 1740.
Here it was adjacent to the street of the same name, Galernaya, which, unlike the crossing, bore its original name for quite a long time. Until the revolution, it was called Galernaya, and then, in the spirit of the times, it was renamed Krasnaya (now the street has again returned its historical name). Therefore, in 1753 it was considered logical to rename the bridge, calling it Galerny.
The adventures with the title did not end there.
Since 1798, Galerny began to be called Sinyavin in official documents.
He bore this name until the end of the 18th century, when he was finally given a new, but this time his last name - Khrapovitsky Bridge.
There is nothing mysterious in the origin of this name.
Just not far from the location of the bridge there was a dacha of the senator and secretary of state of Catherine the Second’s secretary, Alexander Vasilyevich Khrapovitsky. This is where the name comes from his last name.
Khrapovitsky, by the way, remained famous not only for the bridge named in his honor, but also for his “Memoirs,” in which he described historical events and the life of the Empress in the last quarter of the 18th century.
In 1737, a crossing was built in this place, which was called the Yellow Bridge.
At that time, several structures of the same type were thrown across the Moika, and so that the population would not be confused, they were painted in different colors and given appropriate names. Today, many tourists walking around the center of St. Petersburg one way or another end up on the Blue, Red and Green bridges on the Moika River.
Not far from the Yellow Bridge there was a Galernaya shipyard, which, however, was already moved to Vasilievsky Island in 1740.
Here it was adjacent to the street of the same name, Galernaya, which, unlike the crossing, bore its original name for quite a long time. Until the revolution, it was called Galernaya, and then, in the spirit of the times, it was renamed Krasnaya (now the street has again returned its historical name). Therefore, in 1753 it was considered logical to rename the bridge, calling it Galerny.
The adventures with the title did not end there.
Since 1798, Galerny began to be called Sinyavin in official documents.
He bore this name until the end of the 18th century, when he was finally given a new, but this time his last name - Khrapovitsky Bridge.
There is nothing mysterious in the origin of this name.
Just not far from the location of the bridge there was a dacha of the senator and secretary of state of Catherine the Second’s secretary, Alexander Vasilyevich Khrapovitsky. This is where the name comes from his last name.
Khrapovitsky, by the way, remained famous not only for the bridge named in his honor, but also for his “Memoirs,” in which he described historical events and the life of the Empress in the last quarter of the 18th century.
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