🌅 Tuchkov Bridge

A long drawbridge across the Malaya Neva between Vasilyevsky Island and the Petrogradskaya Side.

The first wooden bridge here was built in 1758 with merchants' money.
It is named after the merchant Avraam Tuchkov, the owner of warehouses, who funded its construction.
In 1839 artificial asphalt was laid for the first time in Russia on the causeway of the Tuchkov Bridge.
In 1870 the wooden bridge burned down from a cigarette that was not put out.
The present bridge of 1962–1965, together with the Alexander Nevsky Bridge, was the country's first hydraulically operated drawbridge.
When it opened, it was the widest of the city's large bridges: 36 m between the railings.

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