Pivnichnyi Bridge

Pivnichnyi Bridge Північний міст
Pivnichnyi Bridge
Coordinates	50°29′26″N 30°32′09″E
Carries	Automobiles
Crosses	Dnieper River
Locale	Kyiv, Ukraine
Official name	Pivnichnyi Bridge
Other name(s)	Northern Bridge Moskovskyi Bridge Moscow Bridge
Owner	Ukraine
Followed by	Rybalskyi Railroad Bridge
Characteristics
Total length	816 m
Width	31.4 m
Height	119 m
Longest span	300 m
History
Designer	Mikhail Krasnoshtein Anatoliy Dobrovolskyi
Engineering design by	Heorhiy Fuks
Construction start	1971 (1971)
Opened	December 3, 1976 (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.

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. As part of Ukraine's current decommunization process the bridge was nominated to be renamed for almost a year prior to its new name.

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

External links

Media related to Pivnichnyi Bridge at Wikimedia Commons