🌅 Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge

Санкт-Петербург, Большеохтинский мост

A drawbridge of 1911 with lighthouse-like towers; from it you can see Smolny Cathedral and the Okhta Cape with the Lakhta Center in the distance.

The bridge was laid down on 26 June (9 July) 1909, on the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava, and named the Emperor Peter the Great Bridge.
Construction was sped up by the sinking of the steamer Arkhangelsk at the Okhta ferry on 7 April 1907 — 39 people died.
The design is by Grigory Krivoshein; the bridge opened on 26 October (8 November) 1911.
The spans, weighing 3,660 tonnes each, were delivered on the hulls of old ironclads converted into pontoons.
It was the first bridge across the Neva in Petersburg with a lower roadway and a lifting span in the middle of the river.
The towers on the piers are 36 metres tall; in 2011, for the 100th anniversary, visitors were let into the left-bank tower for the first time.