Andreyevsky Bridge, Railway and pedestrian bridges in Khamovniki District, Russia
The Andreyevsky Bridge is a complex of two separate concrete structures crossing the Moskva River in the Khamovniki District: a railway bridge on the Moscow Inner Ring and a through arch footbridge running alongside it. Both span roughly 264 meters and link the Khamovniki bank to the opposite shore near Gorky Park.
The first crossing here was a steel arch railway bridge designed in 1907 by engineers Lavr Proskuryakov and Alexander Pomerantsev, who were also behind Moscow's other major river crossings of that era. A full reconstruction completed in 2000 transformed the site into the current two-bridge complex.
The bridge's name changed from Sergievsky to Andreyevsky after 1917, when the city removed imperial references from its public spaces. Walkers crossing today move between a residential district and one of Moscow's most visited riverside parks.
The footbridge is open to pedestrians and offers a flat, straightforward crossing between Khamovniki and the Gorky Park side of the river. The railway bridge directly beside it carries active train traffic and is not open to walkers.
The original steel arch from the 1907 railway bridge was not scrapped during the 2000 reconstruction but was moved and reused as the structural core of the new pedestrian crossing. Walkers today are passing over metal that was already there more than a century ago.
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