Bridge on the Damansky island, Road and pedestrian suspension bridge in Yaroslavl, Russia

The Bridge on the Damansky Island is a road and pedestrian suspension bridge over the Kotorosl in central Yaroslavl, linking Podzelenye Street with the island that holds the city's amusement park. The present hanging structure dates from 1999, when it replaced an earlier bridge in disrepair; its components were made at Plant No. 50.

The island formed from a peninsula in the late 1950s when the Kotorosl channel was straightened, and a bridge to Podzelenye Street was built in the same years. In 1969 the island took the informal name Damansky after the Ussuri island at the centre of the Soviet-Chinese border conflict. In 1999 the old bridge, in disrepair, was replaced by a new suspension structure whose components were made at Plant No. 50.

The bridge is a wedding spot in Yaroslavl: grooms carry brides across it and fasten "love locks" to the railing. The island it serves was nicknamed Damansky in 1969 after the Ussuri island of the Soviet-Chinese border conflict; in the mid-1990s it was briefly renamed after Sri Chinmoy, but that name did not stick.

The bridge carries cars and pedestrians between Podzelenye Street and Damansky Island, where the city amusement park stands. Cross it on foot to reach the park, and look for the love locks fixed to the railing by wedding parties. The 1999 suspension span replaced an earlier bridge on the same crossing.

The current suspension bridge dates from 1999, when it replaced an earlier structure deemed unsafe; its components were made at Plant No. 50. The island itself only became an island in the late 1950s, when the Kotorosl's channel was straightened.