page_title: Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge
section_title: Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge (1859, demolished)
hierarchical_section_title: Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge / Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge (1859, demolished)
caption_attribution_description: English: Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and Big Stone Bridge in Moscow (1905). Public domain from the Library of Congress website [1].
context_page_description: Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge is a steel arch bridge spanning Moskva River at the western end of the Moscow Kremlin. Its predecessor was the first permanent stone bridge in Moscow, Russia. The existing bridge was completed in 1938 by engineer Nikolai Kalmykov.
context_section_description: The Second Stone Bridge was built in 1859 by colonel Tannenberg on the same site, in line with today's Lenivka Street. The new bridge had three steel arched spans (36+40+36 meters) on stone pillars, similar to still existing Novospassky Bridge and Borodinsky Bridge. The main drawback, compared to these later bridges, was that the Stone Bridge left no free passage for the traffic on embankments. Riverside traffic had to cross bridge traffic in the same level. This  design error became a problem even before automobiles and this is why the Second Stone bridge was demolished in 1930s, while Novospassky Bridge still stands.
caption: Second Stone Bridge, postcard
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