Fontanka

Coordinates: 59°55′00″N 30°16′42″E / 59.91667°N 30.27833°E

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Water system of Ligovsky Canal

					Dudergofskoye lake

					Dudergofka River
						1718-1721
To Moskovskoye s.
Three highways interchange					Ring Road To Bronka
Three highways interchange					Dachnaya street
Three highways interchange					Diameter To sea port terminal


To Predportovaya					To Ulyanka, Ligovo
To Predportovaya					To Leninsky Prospekt
To Predportovaya					To Leninsky Prospekt
To Konstitutsii square					Leninsky Pr. To Leninsky Metro


					Krasnenkaya River
To Konstitutsii square					Avtovo
Moscow Gate Square					Moskovsky Avenue
Tsarskoselskaya Railway					Kubinskaya Street
Obvodny Y. V. Aqueduct					Aviatorov Pound
Znamenskya Square					Nevsky Prospect
Ponds					Fontanka
					Panteleymonovsky Aqueduct
					Fountains of the Summer Garden
Ponds in Tauride Garden					Steam pump
					Water inlet	1720s
Neva					Moyka

The Fontanka (

Moyka River forms a right-bank branch of the Fontanka. Lined along the Fontanka Embankment stand the former private residences of Russian nobility

Description

Fontanka River Perspective. View to Trinity Cathedral.

Fontanka is located in Central Saint Petersburg

source

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Fontanka course in central St Petersburg

The river, one of 93 rivers and

creek or brook). In 1719 the river received its present name, because water from it supplied the fountains of the Summer Garden

Until the mid-18th century the Fontanka River marked the southern boundary of Saint Petersburg. Along its banks stood the spacious

Summer Palace and the Anichkov Palace. In 1780–89, architect Andrey Kvasov

supervised the construction of the granite embankments and approaches to the river. The river-bed was regularised as well.

Examples of

Catherine Institute [ru], the Anichkov Palace and the Yusupov Palace on Sadovaya Street [ru

Some of the mansions contain museums of the writers and composers who lived there: Gavrila Derzhavin (1743–1816), Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Ivan Turgenev (1818–1833), Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) and others.

Fifteen bridges span the Fontanka, including the 18th-century

Nevsky Prospekt

over the river.

Panorama of Fontanka centred on St Panteleimon's Bridge and Summer Garden behind it

See also

List of bridges in Saint Petersburg

References

Канн П. Я. Прогулки по Петербургу: Вдоль Мойки, Фонтанки, Садовой. St. Petersburg, 1994.

External links

Media related to Fontanka River at Wikimedia Commons

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59°55′00″N 30°16′42″E / 59.91667°N 30.27833°E / 59.91667; 30.27833

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