Embankment of the Neva river near Trinity Bridge (Troitskiy Most) Saint Petersburg, Russia.
In 1803 the Voskresensky ponton bridge, which was built in 1786 near Voskresensky Prospected (now Chernyshevsky Prospect), was moved to the Summer Garden. In 1825, the ponton Suvorovsky Bridge was built to link Suvorovskaya Square with Troitskaya (Trinity) Square. In 1892 a contest for constructing a permanent Troitsky Bridge was announced. There were 16 entrants from Russian and European engineers, including one from the French engineer Gustave Eiffel, the creator of the famous Eiffel Tower in Paris. The winner was the out-of-competition design of V. Shabrol and R. Patulyar from the French Société de Construction des Batignolles. Vital contributions to their proposal were provided by a number of Russian engineers. A special commission from the Imperial Academy of Arts, including Leon Benois also participated in the project. Construction began on 12 August 1897. Félix Faure, the president of France was present at the ceremony. The bridge was completed in 1903, in time for the 200-year anniversary of Saint Petersburg.
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Location: Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Photo credit: © Dmitry Vl. Smirnov / Alamy / Afripics
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