Liteiniy prospect located perpendicularly to Nevskiy prospect and faces directly Liyeiniy bridge. In the area of ​​the bridge Neva river reaches its maximum depth - 24 metres.

Then the road lengths into the street of Academic Lebedev, that terminates in the industrial blocks of Viborgskaya Storona soon. Little earlier, on the right of the street there is a way to Finlyandskiy railroad station.

Historic maps reveal that long before the day Petersburg was founded by Peter I, there was crossing or a ferry on the road from Sweden to Russian lands in the area of the Liteiniy bridge. The crossing was a boundary between territory of Novgorod and lands of Sweden Vyborg.The length of the bridge is 396 meters; its width is 34 meters. The weight of metallic spans is 5902 tones.