Novo-Kirpichny Bridge

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NOVO-KIRPICHNY BRIDGE (called Kirpichny until 1908), over the Volkovka River, along the left embankment of Obvodny Canal. A wooden three-span bridge on brick abutments and piers shaped as cast-iron pillars was built in 1833 (engineer P.P. Bazen). In 1908, as the railway bridge was built, the mouth of the Volkovka was drawn off downstream with a canal, and Novo-Kamenny Bridge was brought to the same spot later. In 1926, it was replaced with a new three-span bridge, covered with reinforced concrete hingeless arch containing a through spandrel and two semi-arches (over the side spans), drawn together with a tie-beam above (engineers B.D. Vasilyev, O.E. Bugaeva, the bridge appeared to be the first reinforced concrete bridge in Soviet Leningrad). The bridge is 49 metres long and 13.2 metres wide.

D. Y. Guzevich. Bazen Peter Petrovich
Bugaeva O.E.
Vasilyev Boris Dmitrievich
Obvodny Canal Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city