The wooden span was replaced with a steel one consisting of eight welded beams.

While the bridge is not the most famous or picturesque, it is connected with some of the most prominent authors in Russian literature.

Upon receiving the illustration, which represented him leaning on a parapet with his back turned towards the Peter and Paul Fortress, he was exceedingly displeased with the result (which had little in common with his own preliminary sketch, illustrated to the right) and scribbled the following epigram underneath: Here, after crossing Bridge Kokushkin, With bottom on the granite propped, Stands Aleksandr Sergeich Pushkin; Near M'sieur Onegin he has stopped.

Ignoring with a look superior The fateful Power's citadel, On it he turns a proud posterior: My dear chap, poison not the well!Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment starts with a mention of the bridge: On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.K.

In "Diary of a Madman", Gogol sends Poprishchin over the Kokushkin Bridge to the Zverkov House.