The Volodarsky bridge in St. Petersburg

Known in St. Petersburg by the Volodarsky bridge was renamed in honor of the leader of the revolution V. Volodarsky, who had committed a deadly attack in the area of construction of the future bridge in 1918. Hundreds of workers came to a revolutionary last journey to the field of Mars. Later, in 1925, at the murder scene was a monument to Volodarsky, created by the architect V. Whitman and the sculptor M. Manizer. The Volodarsky bridge is the only one in St. Petersburg bridge with flyover extension for trams.

In the 30-ies, in connection with the new design of the South-Eastern part of Leningrad with the annular transport line, necessitated the construction of a permanent bridge. The project was designed by an engineering group led by Professor G. P. Perederii, which also consisted of the specialists of V. I. Kryzhanovsky, K. M. Dmitriev and A. S. Nikolsky. Volodarsky bridge was a three-span reinforced concrete arch structure with a lower travel, with the average metal floating stairs and two traffic interchanges with the two banks of the Neva. According to a constructive solution scheme of the bridge was close to the Bolsheokhtinsky bridge. For the construction of arched structures of the side spans of the bridge design was first used a metal pipe filled with concrete. The bascule span was closed farms in the Union which applied the welding.

The bridge Project was implemented in the period from 1932 to 1936 It was one of the most beautiful bridges of Leningrad. Traffic on the bridge Volodarsky was opened on 7 November 1936. Its construction was one of the first major projects of the Soviet time with a number of architectural and technological innovation. The scheme, which has become then typical for bridges of Moscow, was first implemented in this project. In fact, the bridge had a length of 325 m and a width of 27.4 m. the Volodarsky bridge during the great Patriotic war was used as a backup of Finland railway bridge to transport rolling stock between the banks of the Neva.

From 1970 to 1971, was made reconstruction of some parts of the bridge that are outdated from the moment of their commissioning. Subsequent repair work was carried out in the period from 1987 to 1993. The Volodarsky bridge (Saint Petersburg) after its commissioning in 1993 had a significant bandwidth. A large-size vessels now have the opportunity to pass under the bridge without interconnection of the Central span.

In 2008 was completed the reconstruction work of the bridge for reinforcement of structural steel stationary spans.
The Volodarsky bridge, a divorce which is carried out together with the other drawbridges in the city, every night attracts viewers and romantics. The raising of the bridges in St. Petersburg passes summer in the white nights season when the city is especially beautiful. At this time, the bridges over the Neva river for the passage of vessels. Do it in sequential order, starting from the Gulf of Finland and from Volodarsky bridge to the center.