The Second Winter Bridge is a bridge across the

Winter Canal Winter Canal (russian: link=no, Зимняя канавка, ''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 ...

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

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

Location

The bridge is located on 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

1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January *January ...

, 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=dvɐˈrtsovəjə ˈploɕːɪtʲ), connecting Nevsky Prospekt with Palace Bridge leading to Vasilievsky Island, is the central city square of St Petersburg a ...

. In

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...

, 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 (russian: Мо́йка /MOY-ka/, also latinised as Moika) is a secondary, in comparison with the Neva River in Saint Petersburg that encircles the central portion of the city, effectively making it an island or a group of islands ...

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

parapets A parapet is a barrier that is an extension of the 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/breast'). Wher ...

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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