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At the first half of the eighteenth century when Petersburg was still very young, owing to the Peter the Great’s project the city was transformed into one that looked very much like Venice and Amsterdam. Through one of the central rivers four wooden bridges were transferred. Each of them was painted a different colour. Their names are the Blue, the Red, the Yellow and the Green Bridge.

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The blue bridge The blue bridge connects St. Isaac's Square with a lane Antonenko and Voznesensky Prospekt. The width of the bridge makes more than 97 meters so he is the widest in Petersburg. Thanks to the dimensions the Dark blue bridge is perceived as a part of the Isaakievsky area because of what in the literature him have christened precisely "bridge-area". It was founded in 1737 by the Dutch master van Harman Bolosom. Him have built, as was then it is accepted, from a tree, he was elevating that during this period it was necessary. One year later the bridge painted in bright blue, then it got its present name.

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The Red Bridge Red Bridge stretchs along Gorokhovaya street, over Moyka river. It connects the two islands - the Kazanskiy and the Admiralty. Also on it there is the border between the two central districts of the city - the Central and Admiralty. The Red bridge is the only one which was made as the cast-iron bridge built on the project of the engineer William Geste. In 1737 the bridge was rebuilt. In the middle of the bridge a crack of about 70 cm in breadth was left, that mast ships had the opportunity to go through Moyka further on . For the city transport (coaches and wagons) the special passage was laid. The last restoration of the Red bridge was conducted in 1998. Lanterns decorating and illuminative the street were renewed.

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The Green Bridge For years of the existence this bridge had survived several names. Initially it, as well as "brothers", was named Green and was green in colour. In 1768 it changed its name for the Cop as it was situated near the police station. After the revolution, in 1918 the name was changed again. At this time the bridge became the People. And remained as it was until 1998, when the government again decided to return the bridge its former, original name. And now the bridge is called the Green again.