Palace Bridge
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59°56′28″N 30°18′29″E / 59.941149°N 30.308105°E
Palace Bridge Дворцо́вый мост | |
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Neva River | |
Locale | Saint Petersburg |
Characteristics | |
Design | Bascule bridge |
Total length | 260.1 meters |
Width | 27.8 metres |
History | |
Opened | December 23, 1916 |
Location | |
Palace Bridge (
The total length of Palace Bridge is 260.1 metres, width is 27.8 metres. It is actually composed of five spans, the southernmost joining Palace Embankment between the Winter Palace and the Admiralty and leading to Palace Square.
History
After
In 1862, students protesting for a liberal, progressive, and constitutional government were being beaten by the police on the Neva bridge. When the Empress, Maria Feodorovna passed by, the crowds cheered. "They were quite loyal", she said, "they cheered me. Why do you allow the police to treat them so brutally?".[1]
Construction of the cast-iron bridge was started in 1912 to designs by Andrey Pshenitsky, but the work was delayed by
During the October Revolution the bridge was singled out as one of the principal sites to be occupied by the insurrectionists in order to control the city, it was taken without any fighting.[2]
A year after its inauguration, the bridge was renamed Republican Bridge (
Drawing mechanism
The engine which opens up 700 ton of each bridge flights consists of motors, huge gears (some of which are still the original ones) and thousand-ton counterweights. The mechanism works reliably, but sometimes small incidents occur. In October 2002 one of the gear teeth broke off: consequently the drawing was halted in the middle, and ship passage was delayed.
See also
References
- ^ Peter Kropotkin (1901). "The Present Crisis in Russia". The North American Review.
- ^ Trotsky, Leon (1934). History of the Russian Revolution. London: The Camelot Press ltd. p. 1071.