Pivnichnyi Bridge

50°29′26″N 30°32′09″E / 50.49056°N 30.53583°E / 50.49056; 30.53583CarriesAutomobilesCrossesDnieper RiverLocaleKyiv, UkraineOfficial namePivnichnyi BridgeOther name(s)Northern Bridge
Moskovskyi Bridge
Moscow BridgeOwnerUkraineFollowed byRybalskyi Railroad BridgeCharacteristicsTotal length816 mWidth31.4 mHeight119 mLongest span300 mHistoryDesignerMikhail Krasnoshtein
Anatoliy DobrovolskyiEngineering design byHeorhiy FuksConstruction start1971; 53 years ago (1971)OpenedDecember 3, 1976; 47 years ago (1976-12-03)Location

The Pivnichnyi Bridge (Ukrainian: Північний міст) or Northern Bridge is a structure in Kyiv, Ukraine, built in 1976. It is a cable-stayed bridge, designed by the architect Mikhail Krasnoshtein (later, Mikhail Asianov) and engineer G. B. Fux. The beam of the main span is held by a cluster of steel ropes which are fixed to a 119 m (390 ft) tall A-pylon.^[1]

It is notable that as a result of Soviet-era state-sponsored anti-semitism, a non-Jewish architect from Kharkiv (A. V. Dobrovolsky) was brought in to take credit for the bridge's architecture just prior to the official opening of the bridge, and this remains the official record. This record forgery was approved by A. F. Bersheda, the Director of the Kyiv architecture bureau (KievSoyuzDorProekt) at the time.

Until February 2018 the bridge was named Moskovskyi Bridge (Ukrainian: Московський міст) or Moscow Bridge.^[2] As part of Ukraine's current decommunization process the bridge was nominated to be renamed for almost a year prior to its new name.^[3]

Overview

The bridge is actually a composition of two main bridges: a 816 m (2,677 ft) long and 31.4 m (103 ft) wide across the Dnipro, a 732 m (2,402 ft) long, 29.1 m (95 ft) wide across the Desenka (Desna distributary) and includes a road interchange at Stepana Bandery prospect and Volodymyra Ivasiuka prospect to the north and Naberezhno-Rybalska road to the south.

The major feature of the bridge its pylon 119 m (390 ft) in height. It is located on the Trukhaniv Island and providing support for the main span across Dnipro.

It is a key structure on the northern end of the Kyiv Smaller Beltway, connecting Petrivka to the densely populated north-eastern residential neighborhoods of Troieshchyna and Voskresenka. From the moment of its construction the bridge was built as a high-speed motorway, which it remains to this day.

See also

• Bridges in Kyiv

References

External links

Media related to Pivnichnyi Bridge at Wikimedia Commons