The Second Winter Bridge is a bridge across the

Winter Canal Winter Canal (, ''Zimnyaya kanavka'') is a canal in Saint Petersburg, Russia, connecting Bolshaya Neva with Moika River in the vicinity of Winter Palace. The canal was dug in 1718–19. It is only long, which makes it one of the shortest ca ...

. The bridge connects 1st and 2nd Admiralty Islands which are in the Tsentralny District of

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

Location

The bridge is at the right (odd) embankment of the Moyka River between house numbers 31 and 35. Upstream is the First Winter Bridge. The nearest metro station is "Admiralteyskaya."

Name

The name of the bridge has been well-known since 1940.

History

In 1940 a single-span wooden balcony bridge was built for passing festive demonstrations from the

Palace Square Palace Square ( rus, Дворцо́вая пло́щадь, r=Dvortsovaya Ploshchad, p=dvɐrˈtsovəjə ˈploɕːɪtʲ), connecting Nevsky Prospekt with Palace Bridge leading to Vasilievsky Island, is the central city square of St Petersb ...

. In 1964 the bridge was rebuilt into a single-span arch with a solid reinforced concrete vault according to the design of engineer V. S. Ksenofontov and architect L. A. Noskov.

Construction

Second Winter Bridge is a single-span arch bridge. The superstructure is made oblique (the

flows into the

Moyka The Moyka (, also 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 and Kryukov, the Moyka encircles the central portion ...

river at an angle) in plan and has a solid reinforced concrete hinged vault. The supports of the bridge are made of monolithic reinforced concrete on a pile foundation. The bridge length is 20.5 m. The bridge width is 10 m. The facades of the bridge are covered with pink granite. Granite

parapet A parapet is a barrier that is an upward extension of a wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure. The word comes ultimately from the Italian ''parapetto'' (''parare'' 'to cover/defend' and ''petto'' 'chest/brea ...

s are used as fences. The roadway and sidewalks are covered with asphalt concrete. The bridge closely resembles the neighboring First Winter Bridge, thus completing the ensemble on the

.Punin, The Tale of the Leningrad Bridges, Lenizdat, 1971, p.148

References

External links

Second Winter Bridge
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