Lefortovo Tunnel
Lefortovo tunnel (Russian: Лефо́ртовский тоннель) is a road tunnel in the Lefortovo District in Moscow, Russia, opened in 2003. It is a part of the Third Ring Road. At 3.2 km long, it is the third longest in-city tunnel of Europe (after the Södra länken in Stockholm at 4.7 km, and the Dublin Port Tunnel at 4.5 km).
The tunnel runs under the Yauza River, and water leaks in at some points. The temperature has reached as low as −38[citation needed] degrees Celsius (as during the winter of 2005), causing the water on the road's surface to freeze.
It has been nicknamed "The Tunnel of Death" (Тоннель Смерти) owing to its high accident rate and a viral video circulating around the Internet compiling footage of vehicle accidents (many caused by skidding on ice in winter) recorded by monitoring cameras.
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- Moscow-Lefortovo Tunnel at Structurae
- Tunnel boring equipment from construction
- Street map, showing the Lefortovo tunnel as a double dotted line
- Lefortovo monitoring structure monitoring
- Video of Lefortovo Tunnel crashes Clean version: Лефортово - тоннель смерти
Coordinates: 55°45′51″N 37°42′06″E / 55.764068°N 37.701645°E
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