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The Great Nevka or Bolshaya Nevka () is an arm of the
The Great Nevka or Bolshaya Nevka () is an arm of the Neva
The Neva (russian: Нева́, ) is a river in northwestern Russia flowing from Lake Ladoga through the western part of Leningrad Oblast (historical region of Ingria) to the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland. Despite its modest length of , it ...
that begins about below the Liteyny Bridge
The Liteyny Bridge () is the second permanent bridge across the Neva River, Neva river in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It connects Liteyny Prospekt with Vyborgsky district. The bridge's length is 396 meters, the width is 34 meters. At the vicinity ...
in 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 ...
.
Attractions
* Bridges **Samson Bridge
Samson (; , '' he, Šīmšōn, label= none'', "man of the sun") was the last of the Biblical judges, judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges (chapters 13 to 16) and one of the last leaders who "judged" Israel before ...
** Grenadiers Bridge
A grenadier ( , ; derived from the word '' grenade'') was originally a specialist soldier who threw hand grenades in battle. The distinct combat function of the grenadier was established in the mid-17th century, when grenadiers were recruited fr ...
** Kantemirovsky Bridge
Kantemirovskiy Bridge (russian: Кантемировский мост) is a large modern (built in 1979 - early 1980s) drawbridge (bascule bridge) in Saint Petersburg, Russia across the Bolshaya Nevka arm of the Neva river. The bridge connects th ...
** Ushakovsky Bridge
Ushakovsky Bridge (russian: Ушаковский мост " Ushakov's Bridge") (previously known as Stroganovsky Bridge (russian: Строгановский мост "Stroganov's Bridge")) is a bridge spanning the Bolshaya Nevka River in Saint Pet ...
** 3rd Yelagin Bridge
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute''
Places
* 3rd Street (disambiguation)
* Third Avenue (disambiguation)
* Hig ...
* Saint Petersburg TV Tower
Saint Petersburg Television Tower is a Russian steel lattice television tower in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Being the first dedicated television tower in the Soviet Union, the Saint Petersburg TV Tower is utilized for transmitting for FM-/ TV-br ...
* Russian cruiser ''Aurora''
* Lopukhinsky Garden
* Kamenny Island Palace
Kamenny Island Palace (Каменноостровский дворец) is a former imperial palace on the south-western promontory of Kamenny Island in St. Petersburg.
The Neoclassical edifice was commissioned in the 1770s by Catherine II of ...
* Maritime Victory Park
Maritime Victory Park (russian: Приморский парк Победы) is a municipal park on Krestovsky Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was opened in 1945 to commemorate the Allied victory over Nazi Germany
in World War II. Today, it ...
* Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden
The main Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden, officially known as the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Komarov Botanical Institute's Botanical Garden of Peter the Great (russian: Ботанический сад Петра Великого Б ...
* Monument to Alfred Nobel
See also
*List of bridges in Saint Petersburg
There are more than 342 bridges in the city limits of Saint Petersburg, Russia. This is a partial list of the most famous ones.
Peter the Great was designing the city as another Amsterdam and Venice, with canals instead of streets and citizens sk ...
References
Rivers of Saint Petersburg Distributaries of the Neva {{Russia-river-stub