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      Novo-Kamenny Bridge, a Necropolis and a Gasholder

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3.8 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A bridge on the site of the old Ligovsky Canal aqueduct, the graves of Turgenev, Blok and Mendeleev in the quiet of Volkovo, and an 1880s gasholder with a planetarium inside.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 Novo-Kamenny Bridge
        Санкт-Петербург, Лиговский пр. / наб. Обводного канала
        A bridge in line with Ligovsky Avenue on the site of the 1820s aqueduct that carried the Ligovsky Canal over the Obvodny; next to it is the Cossack Holy Cross Cathedral.
        Start at Obvodny Kanal metro.
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        Novo-Kamenny Bridge
        © Alandislands · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The stone aqueduct was built in 1816–1821 to a design by Pierre-Dominique Bazaine; it was called the Yamskoy Aqueduct Bridge.
        • In 1891 the channel was filled in when the Ligovsky Canal was put into a pipe, and the granite basins on the banks became little gardens.
        • The old bridge's railings had an ornament that the architect Mikhail Bunin called Uzbek.
        • The present reinforced-concrete bridge with a 38 m span was built in 1967–1970 and opened on 7 November 1970.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🖼 Literatorskie Mostki Necropolis
        Расстанная ул., 30
        🆓 free entry · tours are paid; on Thursday by guided tour only
        A museum-necropolis: Turgenev, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Blok, Mendeleev, Pavlov, and nearby the Resurrection Church of 1785.
        The graves of Turgenev, Blok and Mendeleev in the quiet of Volkovo.
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        Literatorskie Mostki Necropolis
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        Literatorskie Mostki Necropolis
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        Literatorskie Mostki Necropolis
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        • The tradition goes back to 1802, when Radishchev was buried here; his grave has not survived, and there is a cenotaph.
        • Next to Belinsky (1848) the critics Dobrolyubov (1861) and Pisarev (1868) were laid to rest — and so the section became "literary".
        • Leskov, Kuprin, Miklukho-Maklai, Bekhterev and the radio inventor Alexander Popov are also buried here.
        • In 1935 the necropolis became a museum; the remains of Blok, Goncharov and Pomyalovsky were moved here.
        • Lenin's mother Maria Ulyanova and his sisters Anna and Olga are buried at Mostki.
        • The necropolis has about 500 gravestones.
      4. 🚶 on foot
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        ✨ Planetarium No. 1
        наб. Обводного канала, 74Ц
        🎟 ticket
        The biggest dome in the world — inside an old gasholder
        Go back to the canal and look at the 1880s gasholder from outside (inside is Planetarium No. 1).
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        Planetarium No. 1
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The planetarium opened on 3 November 2017 in a gasholder of the Main Gas Works of the Capital Lighting Society.
        • The empty building was spotted by chance in 2015 by the entrepreneur Yevgeny Gudov while walking along the Obvodny Canal.
        • The gasholder itself is a brick cylinder 20 m high and 42 m across, a federal monument since 2001.
        • The dome's frame is assembled from 1,500 wooden beams and 507 steel “Haeckels” — joints named after the naturalist Ernst Haeckel.
        • The dome is 2 metres wider than that of the planetarium in Nagoya, Japan, the previous Guinness record holder.
        • The image on the dome is produced by 40 projectors with 8K resolution.

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