Stone Bridge, Stone bridge in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Stone Bridge is a stone structure that spans the Iset River on Malysheva Street, connecting the eastern and western sections of Yekaterinburg. The crossing features a solid stone construction with arched spans typical of 19th-century engineering style.
Built between 1840 and 1844 to the design of architect Ernst Christian Georg Sartorius, the bridge closed the southern boundary of the Yekaterinburg factory. In 1839 the city had decided to build five stone bridges, as the wooden crossings over the Iset had fallen into poor condition. The Stone Bridge is one of the few such structures still standing in the city centre.
The bridge carries Malysheva Street, the former Pokrovsky Prospekt, and its four stone obelisks and cast-iron railing with 17 stone posts date from 1841. It closes the south side of the old Yekaterinburg factory grounds and now frames the Historical Square in the city centre.
The bridge carries Malysheva Street across the Iset, linking the city centre's banks east and west, not north and south. Its roadway is narrow, and traffic jams form here regularly; plans call for widening it from two to five lanes, with two lanes toward Gorky Street and three toward 8 Marta Street.
The bridge's cast-iron railing, added in 1841, is set on 17 stone posts, and four stone obelisks stand at its ends. In the 1950s trolleybus service on Malysheva Street brought asphalt paving and new grilles, yet the overall form stayed much as built.
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