You could say that old Petersburg ends here. The other bank of the Neva is the Stalin-era development, and further away the city's residential areas begin. If you don't turn anywhere, the road will eventually lead to Vsevolozhsk.

In 1959, a closed competition was announced to solve an important urban development problem, which was the construction of a bridge across the Neva from Alexander Nevsky Square. The bridge design was supervised by engineer A. S. Evdonin, the authors of the architectural part of the project are architects A. V. Zhuk, S. G. Maiofis and Yu. The authors of the approach project to the bridge and the interchange tunnels are Lengiproinzhproekt engineers Yu. P. Boyko, A. D. Gutsayt, and G. S. Osokina. Construction work began in 1960.

In the final design, the total width of the bridge was 35 meters, the Alexander Nevsky Bridge became the longest in Leningrad - 905.7 meters.

A number of new technologies were used during construction. For the first time, reinforced concrete shells for river supports were buried to a depth of 35 meters. For the first time, cables were used in the design of the crossing - cables stretched in reinforced concrete structures. Their tension is regulated by special devices taking into account the air temperature. In hot weather, the tension weakens, in frost it increases. Another feature was the design of the span structures. They were solved in the form of a stretched letter V, which was placed on the river abutment. They were assembled on the shore, the total weight of each such structure was over five thousand tons. Parking for 230 cars was created inside the ramps of the Alexander Nevsky Bridge.

During the construction, the bridge was called Staro-Nevsky. On May 15, 1965, it was given its current name - the Alexander Nevsky Bridge. On November 1, the bridge was tested for strength by driving a group of combat tanks across it. The Alexander Nevsky Bridge was opened for traffic on November 5, 1965.

Major repairs of the drawbridge and fixed parts of the crossing and the adjacent embankment walls were carried out from December 10, 2000 to April 2002. In the bridge structure, 12 kilometers of cables and all waterproofing were replaced. In 2003, for the anniversary of St. Petersburg, the bridge was illuminated with 500 lamps and 8 spotlights.