Tuchkov bridge

The bridge connects Bolshoy Avenue of the Petrograd Side with the Cadet and the First Line of Vasilievsky Island .

Near the bridge are Prince Vladimir Cathedral , Tuchkov Buyan , Petrovsky Stadium , Yubileiny Sports Palace , Catherine’s Church . It is planned to bring the “Embankment of Europe” to the bridge ^[1] .

Upstream is the Birzhevoy Bridge , below - a bridge in the Sulfur Island region .

The nearest metro station is Sportivnaya ^[2] . On May 27, 2015, the second exit from the metro station was opened, located on Nab. Makarova at the entrance to the bridge.

The first wooden bridge built on this site was called Nikolsky . In the history of the name of the bridge, there are two equal versions according to historians:

• The name of the bridge comes from the name of the merchant Avraam Tuchkov :

  In 1758, a company of four merchants appealed to the Senate with a petition to give them “for eternal and hereditary maintenance” of several bridges in St. Petersburg, committing themselves to build a new bridge across the Malaya Neva from Vasilyevsky Island to the Petrograd side. Among them was the merchant Avraam Tuchkov, the owner of forest warehouses on the Malaya Neva embankment. So this bridge was named after the name of one of the partners, the contractor Avraam Tuchkov.

• The name of the bridge is from the name of the engineer A.V. Tuchkov , who built the bridge in the 18th century .

The first bridge at this place was built in 1758 in the alignment of Maly Prospect Vasilievsky Island. This bridge was wooden and consisted of a die- part in the deep part of the channel and a pile in shallow water. It was 900 meters long and was the longest Petersburg bridge of the 18th century.

In 1833 - 1835, it was rebuilt and became a wooden multi-span bridge on pile supports, with a double-wing adjustable central span. The bridge was built in the alignment of Bolshoi Prospect of the Petersburg side with the construction of an earthen dam from the Malaya Neva to the future Alexandrovsky Prospect (now Dobrolyubova Avenue ). The adjustable span consisted of 4 wooden frames and was bred using hand winches. The carriageway was wooden, made up of crossbars and double plank flooring. The railings of the bridge were equipped with a railing made of cast iron gratings of artistic casting with rectangular pedestals. In 1839, for the first time in Russia, artificial asphalt was laid at Tuchkov Bridge. In 1870, the bridge burned down from an unquenched cigarette ^[3] . In 1920, the bridge was rebuilt into a 20-span. In 1948, wooden spans were replaced by metal, wooden frames in a draw span were replaced by metal, and hand winches by electric. The movable span supports were again built on a wooden pile base with a rigid metal grillage and metal frame trim. By 1960, the bridge had 20 spans, of which one was movable and two were navigable; its length was 257 m, its width was 19 m. The left-bank abutment was stone on a pile foundation, the movable span supports were metal, and the remaining supports were wooden, block-type, on a pile foundation.

In connection with the completion of the Volga-Baltic Canal , which replaced the outdated Mariinsky system in 1964, large and large vessels began to enter the Neva and its hoses. The dimensions and carrying capacity of the bridge could not meet the requirements of land and water transport. Therefore, the question arose of reconstructing the bridge.

In 1962 - 1965, the bridge was fundamentally rebuilt by Lengiproinzhproekt engineers V.V. Demchenko and B. B. Levin according to the project of architects P. A. Areshev and L. A. Noskov ^[4] . It was then that the Tuchkov Bridge acquired a modern look - a three-span reinforced concrete bridge with a drawbridge in the middle.

In 1997 - 1998, a major overhaul was carried out with the replacement of the pavement, repair of the orthotropic plate on the adjustable span and tram tracks. In 2006, work was carried out to repair stationary spans. In 2008 - 2009, work was carried out to repair the supports of the adjustable span.

On June 7, 2016, work began on the reconstruction of the bridge, which should last until 2018 ^[5] . Later, the completion deadlines were postponed to the end of 2017 due to preparations for the upcoming 2018 World Cup ^[6] .

On November 18, 2017, the bridge was opened after reconstruction. On November 19, traffic was open to public transport.

The spacing pattern: 74.10 + 49.80 + 74.10 m. Its total length is 226.2 m (216 m between granite abutments), and the width between the rails is 36 m, the width of the carriageway is 28 m, the width of the sidewalks is 4 m. Permanent spans built in the form of a cantilever beam system with a suspension in the middle. Made of prestressed concrete. The lower belts of the consoles and hanging beams have a curved shape. Pendants are supported on consoles embedded in supports. Such a span structure was applied before the construction of the Tuchkov Bridge on the single-span reinforced concrete bridge of the Red Cadet across the river. Zhdanovka in 1962 . In the cross section, the permanent span of the Tuchkov Bridge consists of 8 main box-section beams.

The adjustable span is a two-winged, drop-down system with a fixed axis of rotation with rigidly attached counterweights, with a hydraulic drive . The angle of the wing 69º. The span is metal. In the closed state - beam-console system.

The abutments of the bridge are massive, reinforced concrete on a pile foundation, lined with granite. The supports are massive, reinforced concrete on a high pile grillage, lined with granite. During the construction of supports piles-shells filled with concrete were used.

The coating on the roadway of the bridge is asphalt concrete, on constant spans - on a reinforced concrete slab, and on an adjustable span - on orthotropic. On the sidewalks there is sand asphalt. The sidewalk is separated from the roadway on permanent spans - with a granite curb, and on a draw span - with metal. The railing of the bridge is a metal welded lattice of a simple pattern of square rods placed at an angle and intertwined in such a way that they create an unusual three-dimensional picture throughout the bridge. Granite parapets are installed on the bridge’s openers from all 4 sides. Lighting on the bridge is typical, street: on a metal tubular poles one lamp is fixed. On the embankment of the right bank from the upper side at the pavilion and the lower side of the river. Zhdanovka on the approach to the bridge are stair descents to the water, lined with granite.

In honor of the Tuchkov Bridge, the Tuchkov Bridge tanker, built at the Admiralty Shipyards factory and launched on December 5, 2003, is named. It is part of a series of tankers named after the famous St. Petersburg bridges.

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• Tuchkov bridge // SPb GBU Mostotrest
• Tuchkov bridge // Committee for the Development of Transport Infrastructure of St. Petersburg