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Bridges and Waterways

The stunning Lion Bridge, a famous St Petersburg landmark
Lion Bridge
1 one of the most beautiful of the city’s
The two pairs of proud lions
800 bridges. It consis ts of ten arches
on Lion Bridge (Lviny Most), a and elegant Style-Moderne lampposts.
Pavel Sokolov creation, date
Anichkov Bridge
from 1825–6. One of the city’s 3
earliest pedes trian suspension MAP P4
bridges, it is suspended by The three-span Anichkov
chains emerging from the Bridge (1839–41) is
mouths of the cast-iron noteworthy for its
lions (see p79). evocative bronze statues
of men taming wild
Trinity Bridge
2 sculptor Pyotr Klodt.
horses by Russian
MAP M1
Opened in 1903 to The statues symbo lize
comm emorate the man’s taming of the forces
200th anniversary of Mother Nature.
of the founding of Viewed in an anti-
St Petersburg, Trinity Bronze statue on clockwise direction,
Bridge (Troitskiy Most) is Anichkov Bridge the wild horses seem
to steadily become
PETROGRADSKAYA domesticated.
Sportivnaya STORONA Troitskiy
Most
Lomonosov
Birzhevoy NAB KUTUZOVA 4
Most Neva Bridge
NABEREZHNAYA MAKAROV A
VASILEVSKIY DVORTSOVAYA NAB NAB R EK I F ONTANKI LITEYNYY PROSPEKT MAP N5
OSTROV Dvortsovyy Notable for its curious
Most
UNIVER SITETSKAYA NAB DVORTSOVAYA Prospekt stone turrets, this bridge
PL
Nevskiy
is named in hon our of the
A NGLIYSKAYA NAB DEKABRISTOV Admiraltey- Gostinyy Dvor Russian scientist Mikhail
NEVSKIY PROSPEKT
skaya
PROEZD
Lomonosov (1711–65).
TSENTRALNYY SADOVAYA UL
RAYON Built between 1785 and
Sadovaya Dostoevskaya 1787, its granite towers
UL DEKABRISTOV VOZNESENSKIY PROSPEKT Sennaya Pl/ housed the open ing
Spasskaya
mecha nism. When the
NAB REKI FONTANKI
SADOVAYA UL ZAGORODNYY PROSPEKT 1 bridge was rebuilt in
Vitebskiy
1912, the towers, having
0 km
MOSKOVSKIY PR
were left in place.
0 mile 1 become a land mark,
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