Vvedensky Canal

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VVEDENSKY CANAL was dug between the Obvodny Canal and the Fontanka River in 1807-10. It received its name from Vvedensky Cathedral (Presentation of the Holy Virgin Cathedral) (at different times it was named Soyedinitelny (Connecting), Novy (New), Semenovsky, and Vitebsky). It passed between former barracks of Egersky Life Guards Regiment (to the left) and the Vitebsky Railway Line (to the right), crossed Zagorodny Avenue, ran by the buildings of the former Naval Medical Academy (the Fontanka River Embankment, 106) and flowed into the Fontanka River between Obukhovsky and Gorstkin Bridges. It was used for navigation and water supply, and recently it served as a sewer. It was spanned by arched Egersky Bridge (dismantled in 1968) in the canal's head, similar to Vvedensky Bridge (dismantled in 1976) at the intersection with Zagogrodny Avenue, and Alexandrovsky Bridge (dismantled in the late 1970s) at its mouth. In 1965-71 the Vvedensky Canal was filled up to lay a street along its route (from 1980, Vvedensky Canal Street).

Y. P. Seliverstov. Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 106
Zagorodny Avenue/Saint Petersburg, city, house 106
Presentation of the Holy Virgin Cathedral
Obukhovsky Bridge