Красный мост, Steel bridge in central Oryol, Russia
The Krasny Bridge is a steel two-span beam bridge over the Oka, linking Gostinaya Street on the left bank with Moskovskaya Street on the right. Its spans rest on the stone piers of the Mariinsky Bridge built in 1877–1879 by engineer A. Lebedinsky. The central river pier and arched stone abutments survive from that structure.
Built in 1879 as the Mariinsky Bridge, it was destroyed during World War II in 1943 and reconstructed in 1950 with new support spans.
The bridge was renamed Krasny (Red) in 1919, having been the Mariinsky Bridge until then. Its predecessor, the wooden Soshny Bridge, took its name from the district peasants (soshnye lyudi) who traditionally paved it; the gate it served was named after an icon of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa set in a niche above the passage.
The bridge links Gostinaya Street on the left bank with Moskovskaya Street on the right, in the historic centre. Its supports are those of the 1877–1879 Mariinsky Bridge by engineer A. Lebedinsky; the spans were rebuilt in 1944 in wood and in 1950 in steel. Crossings were once made by ferry during the Oka floods.
The Mariinsky Bridge was reportedly built by Turkish prisoners captured in 1878. Its two river spans rested on cast-iron galleries, and the bridge's name was written above both entrances; old photographs show the latticework that made it a landmark of the city centre.
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