Tuchkov Bridge

Arkady Svidrigailov, the character from Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment, spends the last night of his life looking into water of Little Neva from Tuchkov bridge.

Anastasiya Chebotarevskaya, a writer and the wife of a decadent early XXc "Silver Age of Russian Poetry" poet Fyodor Sologub, who lived not far away on the embankment of Zhdanovka river, killed herself by jumping from the bridge.

The bridge, subject to daily traffic congestions as a major city north-south link, may be closed for another set of cardinal renovation.

This can be expected after the finishing of supposed repairs to Palace Bridge and completion of Western Fast Diameter highway.

A closing of the bridge is also planned for the time of repeatedly put off building of a travelator tunnel as a connection, in parallel to the bridge, between the existing underground-only Sportivnaya (Saint Petersburg Metro) station on the south bank of Little Neva and the station's possible northern exit to Admiral Makarov Embankment on Vasilievskiy Island to give easier metro access to the people living and/or working on the island who have problems with that during rush hour at the Island's Vasileostrovskaya - the only station in its western part with its many businesses and colleges, as well as housing.