The bridge across the Kerch Strait 1944-45 (site)

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The idea to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait owned minds since ancient times. There have been projects at the beginning of last century.
Construction of the bridge was started more fascist forces, but is in its infancy. In addition to the bridge had to even build some 80 km railway line suitable for the bridge.
The main building unfolded after the Crimean operation. Railway troops and spetsformirovaniya NKPS have done a great job.
The bridge across the Kerch Strait was built, and 3 November 1944 and it was opened by the railway traffic. Built a bridge was short-lived. As a result of the storm, he had been partially destroyed and left the building.

From pigs kilometer stone dam, a bridge across the Strait and stretches out in low-lying coast of the Cape Peninsula Enikalskogo dangerous and towns Zhukovka.
115 single-flown for 27.1 meters, turns to the secondary anvil 110-meter span of double holes on the navigable shipping fairway large vessels, piers on the shore and the dam of the full length of bridge. At the same time, built the railway line approaches to the bridge: from the station Sennoi on the shore of the Caucasus and from the plant Voykova on the Crimean coast.

Because the bridge had no starling, the north-east wind of Azov in the Strait of catch up with ice, which is 18 Feb, 1945 destroyed 32 feet. By February 20, had been damaged 42 feet. Remained 73 pillars, pier and earthen dam. Reconnect the bridge did not. Remains of the pillars hampered the movement of the ship for many years. Back in 1968, continued in the area of elimination of Kerch-Enikalskogo channel remains of towers

Most is not. Lost its strategic importance, it was dismantled and replaced the ferry, but regardless of the seemingly primitive construction, so construction of an extended bridge to the sea strait in wartime - a historic event and technical achievement.
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