Pivdennyi Bridge
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The Pivdennyi Bridge in Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

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

It is the second metro
Kiev Metro
The Kiev Metro is a metro system that is the mainstay of Kiev's public transport. It was the first rapid transit system in Ukraine and the third one built in the USSR . It now has three lines with a total length of 63.7 kilometres and 49 stations...

 bridge in Kiev, serving both the Syretsko-Pecherska metro line
Syretsko-Pecherska Line
The Syretsko-Pecherska Line is third line of the Kiev Metro, first opened in 1989. It extends the metro system southeast along the right bank of the Dnieper River before crossing it on a covered bridge and then east from there. The northern section extends further northwestwards. The line is one...

 and automobile traffic. The cables holding the spans on the bridge are supported by two ferroconcrete double-column structures 135 m (443 ft) in height.

The bridge currently has three traffic lanes in both directions (total of six). It connects the Vydubychi
Vydubychi
Vydubychi is a historical neighborhood in Ukrainian capital Kiev. Geographically constituting a hill and a valley on the Right Bank of the Dnieper River, it is now a part of the Pechersk district of the city....

 to the rapidly-developing left-bank Darnytsia
Darnytsia
Darnytsia , is a raion of the Ukrainian capital Kiev.It is the southeastern raion of Kiev located on the left bank of Dnieper river. It borders Dnieper to its west with Holosiiv Raion of Kiev is lying across it, Dnipro Raion of Kiev city to its north, and Boryspil Raion of Kiev Oblast to its east...

 district, completing the southern end of the "inner circle" road route (beltway) 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. In 2010 a railway traffic portion of that bridge was finished, while the automobile traffic is scheduled to be established sometime in 2011. The whole project, however, is supposed to end around 2015.

External links

Bridge profile at the International Database and Gallery of Structures Bridge profile at skyscraperpage.com
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