🌅 Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge

A 1938 bridge over the Moskva River with views of the Kremlin, Red Square and Zamoskvorechye.

This is one of the oldest crossings in Moscow: a pontoon bridge stood here from 1498.
The present bridge was built in 1936–1938 to a design by architects Alexey Shchusev and P. M. Sardaryan and engineer V. S. Kirillov.
Under the 1935 General Plan the bridge was raised 14 m above the water so that Volga ships could pass beneath it.
With its approaches the bridge is 554 m long and 40 m wide, with three spans of monolithic reinforced concrete.
On 28 May 1987 West German amateur pilot Mathias Rust landed his light aircraft on the bridge.
On 27 February 2015 the politician Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on the bridge.

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