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Smezhny Bridge

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SMEZHNY BRIDGE (Soedinitelny or Kryukov Bridge), across Kryukov Canal, on Fontanka River Embankment. It was built in the late 18th - early 19th centuries in the shape of a three-span bridge with wooden framework, replaced with metal in 1888. In 1964, the high sectional steel beams were laid on the bridge for the laying of the heat pipeline (engineer E.E. Rozenfeld). The bridge is 25.9 metres long and 15.4 metres wide.

D. Y. Guzevich.

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Rosenfeld Efim Davydovich A6331

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Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city

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Kryukov Canal KRYUKOV CANAL runs from the Admiralty Canal by Truda Square to the Fontanka River. 1015 meters long, it was dug from the Neva River to the Moika River in 1719-20 and was named after the contractor Semen Kyukov in 1738 (the section from the Neva to