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Pairs of adjacent bridges serving the same highway or rail line are listed as single entries, with different completion years separated by commas. Demolished bridges are listed only when no replacements were built on old sites or nearby. Tram service is shown as of December 2006. Many other existing bridges had tram tracks in the past.
' Picturesque Bridge ') is a cable-stayed bridge that spans Moskva River in north-western Moscow, Russia. It is the first cable-stayed bridge in Moscow. It opened on 27 December 2007 as a part of Krasnopresnensky avenue . It is also the highest cable-stayed bridge in Europe. [1] The author of the project is the architect Nikolay Shumakov. [2]
Wai-Fah Chen, Lian Duan (October 2013). "Bridge Engineering in Russia". Handbook of International Bridge Engineering.CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group. p. 635.
Pages in category "Bridges in Moscow" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Andreyevsky Bridge; B.
Maly Krasnokholmsky Bridge (Russian: Малый Краснохолмский мост) is a bridge over the Vodootvodny Canal in Zamoskvorechye District in Moscow, Russia. This is one of the three bridges included into the Garden Ring , a ring road encircling the city center. [ 1 ]
Bolshoy Krasnokholmsky Bridge, close view, after reconstruction (2007) The new bridge was designed to eliminate this kink, so the bridge-to-river angle is 55 degrees. Initially, planners considered a cable-stayed scheme, but a combination of cable scheme and a sharp angle seemed too risky, so they reverted to conventional arch design.
The 1853 city plan shows a total of four such crossings. One was eventually demolished without replacement, three others correspond (west to east) to present-day Maly Ustinsky, Astakhovsky (Yauzsky) and Tessinsky bridges. Most important of these, Yauzsky Bridge, connecting city center with eastbound roads, was rebuilt in stone in 1804.
The bridge over Neglinnaya lowlands extended 120 meters long and 12 meters wide; the shops between Kuznetsky Bridge and Vorontsov lands were literally standing on the edge of this bridge. The street was known as the home of notorious Darya Saltykova (1730-1801), condemned to life in prison for torturing her slaves.