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VOLODARSKY BRIDGE Named in honor of Bolshevik M. Volodarsky, who was an active revolutionary and served as Press Commissar for Petrograd after the Bolshevik Revolution, the Volodarsky Bridge is a unique industrial drawbridge that spans the wide Neva River in the south-eastern part of St. Petersburg and provides an important transportation artery. Built in the early 1930's to the project of the architect G. Peredery, the Volodarsky Bridge boasts many technical innovations of that times and combines a simple design (similar to the Bolshoi Okhtinsky Bridge) with a flexible arch support system.For instance, Peredery decided to cover the spans with interesting industrial designed flexible arches supported by metal ray-like beams which rise up to meet the arches; the drawbridge spans 43,6 meters wide and 101 meter long were the first to be covered by trusses connected with elements, which where produced by electric welding; moreover, the bridge builders were the first to use gigantic pontoons to transfer the heavy reinforced flexible arches from the factory to the bridge construction site; and also the Volodarsky bridge builders where the first to use a steel framework reinforcement system relying on metal tubes filled with concrete. Measuring 20,2 meters wide and 325,4 meters long, the Volodarsky Bridge is one of the longer bridges in the Northern capital.

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