Danilovskiy Bridge

Danilovsky Bridge is a railway bridge. Although, before the reconstruction, there was a pedestrian crossing on it. And in general, before the reconstruction, the bridge was more interesting and beautiful than the current simple girder version. MCC trains pass along the bridge, you can admire the Moskva River, view the progress of the restructuring of the ZIL territory

It is impossible to imagine Moscow without bridges. Bridges in the capital appeared simultaneously with the birth of the city. They are one of the oldest engineering inventions of mankind. And bridges are also "living monuments" (something is always moving along them) architecture and engineering art. Very often they are also a wonderful architectural decoration of the city. Danilovsky Bridge may not be as graceful and beautiful as its Moscow brothers-bridges, but it is worthy of attention and respect. The railway, metal, three-span bridge has its own unusual history. The status of a large commercial and industrial center of the country, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, made the authorities and merchants think ... Transit goods and goods for their own consumption, every day (according to the calculations of specialists) 4,000 wagons. To transport them from stations around the city, about 20,000 dray cabs were needed. However, there were big problems. The unloading of the Moscow hub became a matter of state importance. To unload the city, it was decided to build a circular railway line around it. Cargo was received from six directions, while four more were under construction. And now, in the fall of 1897, at the initiative of a great enthusiast of railway transport, Minister of Finance of the Russian Empire - Sergei Wttte, at a special meeting with the participation of Emperor Nicholas II, this proposal was voiced. The idea was liked by the tsar, despite the high cost of this global project, and he gave the go-ahead for construction. However, construction began only in March 1902. , under the guidance of an engineer of the 5th class P. Rashevsky. Due to a lack of funds (a lot of state money was spent on the war with Japan, lost in 1905), a ring was built, with only two main tracks for organizing freight traffic. 2 more tracks, intended for passenger traffic, were not built. That's just, in the implementation of this breakthrough project, 4 large bridges were envisaged and built across the Moscow River. These are: Dorogomilovsky, Krasnoluzhsky, Andreevsky and "our hero" - Danilovsky. Another construction program included one the middle bridge over the rivers: Yauza and Likhoborka. Supervised the construction of bridges, engineer N. Belelyubsky (a famous bridge builder built large bridges of the Trans-Siberian). P. Velikhov took part in the design of bridges. In 1907, the 1st train was sent along the Moscow ring road, but completely the road started working only from 20.07.1908, when regular train traffic was opened. Moscow "breathed a sigh of relief." The bridge was called Alekseevsky - in honor of the heir to the throne, Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich. Yes, the same is the only son of Nicholas II and the Empress of All Russia - Alexandra Feodorovna, who was shot on July 17, 1918, along with his parents, sisters and servants. Sad fate. And the bridge turned out well - it became a worthy "bridge worker". The bridge turned out to be the longest and most powerful of all four Moskvoretsky bridges of the Okruzhnaya railway. It was the last of them built - in 1905-1907, according to the project of engineers Belelyubsky and N. Boguslavsky, as evidenced by the preserved cast-iron memorial plaque on one of the coastal bulls of the bridge.By the way, the span structures were made at the Sormovsky plant (yes, in Nizhny Novgorod, it turns out that not only steam locomotives and ships were made, but later, submarines and tanks ...) A feature of the bridge was the arrangement of a pedestrian crossing in the center of the bridge, between the trusses. On the east side, the bridge was decorated according to the drawing of A. Pomerantsev, a decorative portal with turrets, spiers, massive embossed coats of arms and a bronze bust of the heir to Alexei. This is probably the main highlight of the Danilovsky Bridge. It is located in the intervals between the trusses and was then a rarity for decorating bridges of that time. In Soviet times, it was first renamed into Kozhukhovsky. In the 1990s, it received its current name - Danilovsky, because under the bridge, in addition to the Moskva River, there was the current embankment (during the construction of the bridge it was not), which was named at the beginning of the 20th century after the Holy Danilov Monastery, near which it passes along the river bank. This is how it turned out to be a bridge ...

I cross the bridge on the MCC train to work and back. It's nice to look down at the river in Moscow. Beautiful at any time of the year.

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