🏛 Lomonosov Bridge

Towers of the 18th-century drawbridge mechanism

The bridge was built in 1785–1788; to make room for it, the just-completed granite embankments of the Fontanka had to be taken apart.
It was first called Ekaterininsky, from 1798 Chernyshev after Count Chernyshev's estate, and received Lomonosov's name on 23 August 1948.
It is one of seven standard tower bridges over the Fontanka; only two survive — this one and the Staro-Kalinkin Bridge.
The lifting mechanisms were hidden in four granite towers; the chains between the towers are a reminder that the middle span once lifted.
In 1912 the Academy of Arts defended the bridge's appearance: reconstruction was approved only if the towers were kept.

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