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Vasilievsky Island Vasilievsky Island is a part of the Saint Petersburg

Summary: Vasilievsky Island Vasilievsky Island is a part of the Saint Petersburg one of the most beautiful cities in the world   Vasilievsky Island is connected to the continental part of Saint Petersburg by a number of drawbridges   The architecture of Saint Petersburg is unique due to it s being the capital of Russia at a time 1712   As one can see on the picture closer to the center of the city the buildings are older most of them being built in the 18 th century   On the outskirts the new houses are still being built   They are multistoried buildings with at least 8 floors built out of brick or blocks of concrete   Usually the cost of living in downtown area costs almost twice as much as on its suburbs where there are a lot of plants and factories are situated The Palace Bridge unites Winter Palace on the one side of the Neva River and the University Naberezhnaya and Vasilyevsky Island spit on the other   Construction on the new Palace Bridge began in 1912 There were about 27 different proposals and the project was awarded to A Pshenitskiy   Palace Bridge was officially opened to traffic in 1916 though its decorations were far from complete   The new bridge is 250 meters long and 28 meters wide   It is composed of five separate spans with two of the middle spans opening up at relatively wide angles to allow ships to pass underneath   Bridges open from May to late October according to a special schedule Residents of the city have to make sure they are on the right side of the city after 2 a m or they will have to wait until 4 300 to 5 00 a m for the bridges to be lowered Submitted by Lidiya Tsedrik on November 14 2003

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