Rybatsky Bridge, Concrete bridge in Nevsky District, St Petersburg, Russia
Rybatsky Bridge is a five-span beam bridge over the Slavyanka River at its mouth, linking Rybatsky Prospekt with the new Slavyanskaya Street route. Its middle span is a metal structure with longitudinal and transverse bracing, while the outer spans are reinforced concrete T-beams joined by monolithic slab seams. The bridge is 139.5 m long and 16.1 m wide, with asphalt concrete paving and welded metal railings ending in reinforced concrete parapets on the abutments.
A bridge at the mouth of the Slavyanka appears on an 1817 map; the wooden multi-span crossing was repaired repeatedly and named Ust-Slavyansky in 1839. It was dismantled during the Siege of Leningrad. In 1957 the five-span bridge by engineer N. K. Penionzhkevich of Lengiprodortrans was built, and after reconstruction by the Vozrozhdenie group in 2022–2023 it reopened to vehicles in late October 2023.
The bridge's name comes from the historical district of Rybatskoye, though it was only officially assigned in 1997; from the 1960s the name was already in use. Earlier, in 1839, the crossing was named Ust-Slavyansky after the Slavyanka estuary. Nearby stands the Slepushkin House, a regional cultural monument.
The bridge carries both vehicles and pedestrians; the roadway and sidewalks are paved with asphalt concrete, and a welded metal railing runs along the edges, ending in reinforced concrete parapets at the abutments. The nearest metro station, Rybatskoye, is 1.8 km away. Upstream lies the Slavyansky Bridge.
The bridge kept being used by pedestrians after it was closed to cars in January 2000, when it was judged to have exhausted its working life. A rebuild by the Vozrozhdenie group of companies followed in 2022–2023, and motor traffic returned at the end of October 2023. Upstream stands the Slavyansky Bridge.
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