In 1913, near the city of Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) started a big time for the construction of a railway bridge over the river Volga. On the construction of facilities in the two mile with flyovers were thrown about four thousand of the best specialists of bridge builders and workers. Circumstances compel begin building almost from scratch in 1914 - a fire that hit a third farm and damaged the first and second, fire damage, estimated by experts of two million rubles, in 1915 there was a landslide Simbirsk mountains.

Inauguration of the greatest bridge in Europe was held on October 5, 1916 and a wooden memorial titular board at the entrance portal, first read that the bridge was called "Nicholas," but in 1917 it was renamed the "Bridge to Freedom."

With the opening of the Kuibyshev reservoir in 1958, needed reconstruction of the bridge was also built additional car turn in two directions. In 1983, after the shipwreck of the passenger ship "Alexander Suvorov", the captain is confused many spans a portion of the bridge had to be repaired again, and from 2003 to 2008, the pre-revolutionary bridge was capitally reconstructed.

And now the Emperor's bridge looks very impressive during the day, while in a picturesque place, with night illumination in the dark.