Kharlamov Bridge (Saint Petersburg)

 road bridge, 1934_construction

Kharlamov Bridge spans the Griboyedov Canal in the Admiralteysky district of St. Petersburg. It connects the Kazan and Spassky Islands in the Admiralteysky district of St. Petersburg. It is a single-span reinforced concrete arched structure with a length of 16.9 meters and a width of 22.5 meters. The superstructure is a solid reinforced concrete vault. The abutments of the bridge are massive concrete on a pile foundation, lined with granite.

The bridge is oblique in plan – the angle between the longitudinal axes of the bridge and the channel is 108 degrees. On the bridge there is a metal column–free fence of a simple pattern, and on the postcards there is a granite parapet.

The railing is metal of a simple pattern, reminiscent of the simplified pattern of the grating of the Griboyedov Canal.

Kharlamov Bridge at the intersection of a Deaf river (another name is the Krivusha River) with Ekaterinhofsky Avenue existed already by 1753. Originally it was wooden and got its name from the nearby house of State Councilor E.S. Kharlamov.

In 1764-1783, according to the project of engineer I.M. Golenishchev-Kutuzov, the riverbed was cleared and deepened, the embankments were laid out with stone. The watercourse was named the Catherine Canal. At the same time, in 1780, the Kharlamov Bridge was rebuilt. Now it has become a wooden single-span bridge of a strut system on stone supports lined with granite. The bridge was repeatedly repaired in wood.

In 1927, on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the formation of the Komsomol, the bridge was named Komsomolsky. In 1991, the bridge was returned to its historical name — Kharlamov.

The modern bridge in this place was built in 1934 according to the project of engineers M.I. Zhdanov and A.D. Saperstein with the advice of Professor G.P. Perederia. The old wooden ferry was dismantled and a reinforced concrete single-span arch bridge was built in its place. The project of the neighboring Novo-Nikolsky Bridge was taken as a model.

In 1978, the granite curb separating the sidewalk from the roadway was replaced with an elevated reinforced concrete parapet.

In 2005, a metal covering with concrete filling was installed on the reinforced concrete fence. The height of the fence is 75 cm.

In the house located next to the bridge, Valka settled after arriving in St. Petersburg in 1816, A.S. Griboyedov, a plan for the comedy "Woe from Wit" was drawn up here and its first scenes were created. Also, many researchers of F.M. Dostoevsky's creativity believe that it was this house that served as the prototype of the house of the old woman-interest-taker in the novel "Crime and Punishment".

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