4th Volkovsky bridge (Saint Petersburg)

 footbridge, 1968_construction

4th Volkovsky bridge across Volkovsky canal is located near with the Prospekt Slavy railway station.
In the 60 years in the "Kupchino" widely developed housing, which caused the need for a convenient connection to other parts of the city, build a new railway platform and pedestrian bridge. River Volkovka in the area of Prospekt Slavy railway station​​ to Almaznaya street was arched shape and its architectural layout was filled on this site, but instead of a direct canal was dug along the embankment of Vitebsk line of October railway, through which the construction of new bridges: pedestrian № 4, Novo-Volkovsky and Belgradsky.
The bridge was built in 1968, the project engineer Ye Rosenfeld. Is a single span structure, reinforced concrete, beam-split system. Span of the precast blocks. Massive abutments of the bridge of reinforced concrete on pile foundations, plastered with granite chips and application of decorative stitches under a rock. Perilnoe fence - a metal, welded, of the lattice. The bridge is designed for pedestrian traffic. The bridge is 36.2 meters, width 4.4 meters. The coating on the part of the passer-by - sandy asphalt on concrete slab.