Ioannovskii Most (Ioannovskii Bridge), St. Petersburg

This bridge linking Zaiachii Ostrov to Troitskaia Ploshchad' is the oldest in the city and became necessary once the Peter and Paul Fortress had been founded on the island in 1703. Originally it was a pontoon bridge but in 1706 was rebuilt as a wooden drawbridge. In 1738, the bridge was moved to in front of the Ioannovskie Vorota but it only took the name Ioannovskii in 1887. Only in 1953 were all the bridge's wooden components finally fully removed under A.L. Rotach and replaced by metal ones.