🌅 Annunciation Bridge (Blagoveshchensky Bridge)

The first permanent bridge across the Neva (1850), with lamps on cast-iron railings and a view of the Spit and St Isaac's.

The bridge opened in 1850 — before that, in summer, the Neva could only be crossed by pontoon bridges.
At its opening it was the longest bridge in Europe — about 300 metres.
From 1855 it was called Nikolaevsky, from 1918 Lieutenant Schmidt Bridge; its historic name was restored in 2007.
After the 2007 reconstruction, the cast-iron railings with sea horses and tridents, from Bryullov's design, were restored.

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