- Rostokino Aqueduct
Rostokinsky Aqueduct, also known as Millionny Bridge, is a stone
aqueduct overYauza river inRostokino District ofMoscow ,Russia , built in 1780-1804. It is the only remaining aqueduct in Moscow, once a part ofMytishchi Water Supply, Moscow's first centralized water utility.History
The Aqueduct was commissioned by
Catherine II of Russia to engineer Friedrich Wilhelm Bauer. Catherine authorized 1.1 million rouble expenditure and 400 soldiersMoscow Water Museum data, [http://testan.narod.ru/museum/voda.htm Water Museum] ] . Builders used second-hand stone left by demolition ofBely 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. In the process, both Catherine and Bauer died. Colonel Ivan Gerard lead the project after Bauer's death in 1783. Catherine's son, Paul I, had to issue 400,000 roubles financing; Alexander I added 200,000 roubles. Finally, the aqueduct was completed at an unprecedented cost of 2 million roubles [Moscow Water Museum figure. Other sources put it at 1.60 and 1.648 millin roubles] , thus the name "Millionny Bridge".pecifications
Total length 356 meters, height over Yauza level 19 м. 21 arches, each spans 8,5 meters. Original masonry water canal (0.9 meter wide, 1.2 meter high [Russian: Энциклопедия "Москва", 2004 ("Moscow Encyclopedia", 2004)] was replaced with iron pipe in 1850s.
Water flowed naturally through a 20-kilometer masonry canal to a system of fountain taps; in 1892, the system was uprated with construction of pumps and water reservoires in the city [Russian: История одного водопровода, "Энергия промышленного роста" N 6 [7] June 2006 [http://www.epr-magazine.ru/industrial_history/landscape/vodoprovod/ www.epr-magazine.ru] ] . Mytishchi Water Supply was closed in 1937, when a superior water supply, a part of
Moscow Canal project, was completed.Ichka Aqueduct (demolished)
A smaller, single-span aqueduct over river
Ichka was built during the 1888-1892 modernization of Mytishchi system. It was destroyed in 1997 to make way forMKAD highway [Russian: [http://www.archi-tec.ru/news/6/ www.archi-tec.ru] ] .References
External links
* [http://mohovoy.ru/altmoscow/akveduk.htm Photo gallery]
ee also
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List of bridges in Moscow
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