BRANKOV MOST ( Branko's bridge ) (Belgrade) | road bridge

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Branko's bridge (Serbian: Бранков мост/Brankov most) is the second-largest bridge (after Gazela) of Belgrade, Serbia, across Sava river, connecting the city center with New Belgrade.The bridge was built in 1957 after World War II, replacing the former chain-stayed King Alexander I bridge that was opened on December 16, 1934 and blown up in 1941.The name of the bridge is unofficial, and seems to owe it to a bizarre chain of events. Its official name during the communist rule was "Brotherhood and unity bridge" (Most bratstva i jedinstva), but that name never caught up: it was called "bridge in Branko's street" (named after Branko Radičević, Serbian romanticist poet) or "Savski most" (Sava bridge). However, when another writer, Branko Ćopić, committed a suicide by jumping from the bridge in 1984, the current name started circulating and eventually caught up; it is still not clear after which Branko it was named.