Trinity Bridge - (in Soviet times - Kirov bridge ) is one of the most beautiful bridges across the Neva River in St. Petersburg . The bridge connects Suvorovsk area before the Field of Mars and Trinity Square ( Petrograd Side ). After the bridge begins Kamennoostrovsky Ave .
Bridge openwork metal design consists of five arches, and a movable span is closer to the left bank and rock fill embankment on the right . Weight steel bridge - 11 242 tonnes. [2 ]
The opening of the bridge took place on the 200th anniversary of St. Petersburg (May 1903).Thus he became the third permanent bridge across the Neva River (after the Annunciation , opened in 1850 and Foundry ).
The name of the bridge has received from the Holy Trinity Cathedral , destroyed in 1932. In 1918 it was renamed the bridge of Equality, in 1934 [3], after the death of Kirov - Kirov at the bridge.The name lasted until October 4, 1991 , after which the bridge was called again Troitsky.
Prior to the erection of the bridge in 1965, Alexander Nevsky, he stayed the longest in the city (582 m).
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