Pivdennyi Bridge (Kiev)

Pivdennyi Bridge
Kiev City Southern Bridge
Південний міст
Pivdennyi Bridge
Coordinates 50°23′41″N 30°35′17″E / 50.39481°N 30.58814°E / 50.39481; 30.58814Coordinates: 50°23′41″N 30°35′17″E / 50.39481°N 30.58814°E / 50.39481; 30.58814
Carries road traffic, Metro
Crosses Dnieper River
Locale Kiev, Ukraine
Preceded by none
Characteristics
Design cable-stayed bridge, harp
Total length 1,256 metres (4,121 ft)
Width 41 metres (135 ft)
Height 135 metres (443 ft)
Longest span 270 metres (890 ft)
History
Designer A. Gavrilov
Engineering design by G. Fux
Construction start 1983
Opened 1990-12-25
Statistics
Daily traffic 6 lanes

The Pivdennyi ("Southern") Bridge in Kiev, Ukraine was designed by the architect A. Gavrilov ("Mostobud") and a group of engineers headed by G. Fux, was built in 1990.

Traffic on Southern Bridge in Kyiv

Overview

It is the second metro bridge in Kiev, serving both the Syretsko-Pecherska metro line and road traffic. The cables holding the spans on the bridge are supported by a ferroconcrete double-column pylon 135 m (443 ft) in height.

The bridge currently has three traffic lanes in both directions (total of six). It connects the Smaller Ring Road around the center of Kiev. The bridge is part of the and is formally an extension of the local Promyslova Street.

About 1.5 miles north from it is building a new bridge.[1] In 2010 a railway traffic portion of that bridge was finished, while the automobile traffic was scheduled to be established sometime in 2011. The whole project, however, is supposed to end around 2015.

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