Rostokino Aqueduct

The aqueduct was commissioned by Catherine II of Russia to engineer Friedrich Wilhelm Bauer.

[1] Builders used second-hand stone left by demolition of Bely Gorod fortifications.

Construction, frequently interrupted, dragged for 25 years, as the soldier engineers were summoned to the war with Turkey (1787-1792) and various other jobs.

Finally, the aqueduct was completed at an unprecedented cost of 2 million roubles,[2] thus the name Millionny Bridge.

A smaller, single-span aqueduct over Ichka river was built during the 1888-1892 modernization of Mytishchi system.