Italian Bridge, Pedestrian bridge over Griboedov Canal, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The Italian Bridge is a single-span metal beam footbridge over the Griboyedov Canal, linking Kazansky and Spassky islands. It runs from Italyanskaya Street beside the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood. The span is 19.66 m long and 3 m wide, with two welded main girders and cast-iron railings that end at granite pedestals topped by metal lanterns.

Railway engineer Leonid Kolpitsyn built the first wooden single-span bridge here in 1896 at his own expense, costing 3,500 rubles, after the city declined to fund it; it opened on 6 October 1896. Karl Baldi rebuilt it in 1902, replacing the xylolite paving with planks, and K. V. Yefimyev supervised another rebuild in 1911–1912. In 1937 it was converted to carry two heating pipes, and the present steel beam span dates from 1955, engineered by A. D. Guttsait with architect V. S. Vasilkovsky.

The name, in use since the 1910s, comes from Italyanskaya Street, which the bridge continues past the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood. The cast-iron railings are of artistic casting and end at granite posts topped with metal torches; the lanterns and railings were restored in 1996. The railing sections and torches follow designs drawn from bridges of the first half of the 19th century, similar to those on the Green Bridge over the Moyka.

The bridge is accessible to pedestrians around the clock and sits near well-known sights like the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood and Kazan Cathedral. It provides convenient passage through this active area of the city.

The 1896 bridge was the first in Russian bridge-building to use xylolite slabs as paving; they were replaced by plank decking in Karl Baldi's 1902 rebuild. Engineer Leonid Kolpitsyn paid the 3,500 rubles himself after the city declined the project, then donated the bridge to the city.