History of the St. Petersburg

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• St. Petersburg’s suspension bridges
  It may sound odd to speak of lions in the role of bridge supports, yet such a structure actually exists in St. Petersburg. We are speaking of the Lions' Bridge that spans the Griboyedov Canal where it loops picturesquely in the vicinity of Theatre Square.
• St. Petersburg, winter 2010
  Panoramic photography of Strelka Vasilievskogo ostrova and Hermitage.
• St. Petersburg first bridges
  If Saint-Petersburg is known as the City of Bridges, there is every reason for the name, for sixty-eight rivers, canals and creeks criss-cross it in all directions, cutting it up into forty-two islands, large and small.
• Old Kolomna bridges
  West of the Kriukov Canal, between the Moika and Fontanka, lay an extensive area known in Old St. Petersburg since the middle of the eighteenth century as Kolomna.
• Fontanka granite bridges
  In the 1780s work was begun on the granite facing of the embankments of the Fontanka, the widest , and longest southern branch of the Neva delta. In view of the heavy volume of shipping on the Fontanka a number of inclined ramps were constructed on its banks to facilitate the handling of freight.