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Crossing the Moika River between Pisareva Ulitsa and the embankment of the Admiralty Canal, Khrapovitsky Bridge is named after Catherine the Great's personal secretary, Alexander Vasilievich Khrapovitsky, who is best-known to posterity for his popular memoirs of the empress. The current bridge was built in 1965-67 on the site of a wooden bascule bridge that had remained intact for nearly two centuries (1737-1935). A 43-meter, single-span bridge of pre-stressed concrete, the Khrapovitsky Bridge is typical of the 1960s, and utterly unremarkable.
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