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Patriarshy Bridge (Russian: Патриарший Мост/Patriarchal Bridge) is a steel pedestrian box girder bridge that spans Moskva River and Vodootvodny Canal, connecting Cathedral of Christ the Saviour with Bersenevka in downtown Moscow, Russia (0.6 kilometers west from the Kremlin). It was built in 2004, designed by Mikhail Posokhin. The second part of the bridge spanning Vodootvodny Canal was opened in September, 2007.

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Patriarshy Bridge
Bersenevskaya Naberezhnaya, Moscow Yakimanka District

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Bersenevskaya Naberezhnaya
119072 Moscow, Yakimanka District
Moscow, Russia
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