The Red Bridge (, ''Krasniy most''), is a single-span bridge across the

Moika River The Moyka (, also Romanization, latinised as Moika) is a short river in Saint Petersburg which splits from the Neva River. Along with the Neva, the Fontanka river, and canals including the Griboyedov Canal, Griboyedov and Kryukov Canal, Kryu ...

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. The bridge is a part of

Gorokhovaya Street Gorokhovaya Street () is a north-south thoroughfare in the Central Business District of Saint Petersburg. Gorokhovaya Street is one of central Saint Petersburg's major thoroughfares, extending from the Admiralty and running south, crossing the ...

. The length of the bridge is 42 m; the width is 16.8 m. The first

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bridge on the site was designed and built in 1808-1813 to a design by William Heste. The bridge was rebuilt in 1953 by architect V.V. Blazhevich. The original cast iron structure of the bridge was replaced by the welded steel arches but most of the decorations are left intact. The bridge's name dates from a 19th-century tradition of color-coding the bridges crossing the Moika River. Like other colored bridges, the Red Bridge got its name from the colour of its sides facing the river. Today only four colored bridges survive, the other ones being the Blue Bridge, the Green Bridge and the Yellow Bridge respectively. Three of them have kept their original names, but Yellow Bridge has been renamed to Pevchesky Bridge.

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Bridges across Moyka
Bridges in Saint Petersburg Bridges completed in 1813 Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Saint Petersburg {{Russia-bridge-struct-stub

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