Bolshoy Ustyinsky Bridge (Moscow)

 road bridge, 1938_construction

This is a steel arch bridge across the Moscow River. The new bridge was built in 1938 (engineer VM Vahurkin, architects GP Goltz and DM Sobolev) and the old bridge with the same name was built near the arched bridge in 1881. The bridge is 40 meters wide and 478 meters long; main span is 134 meters long, having six parallel steel arches (span formula 50.5+134.0+50.5 meters). Orthotropic deck is supported by I-beams; there are six road lanes and two tram tracks on a raised divider. Two features make this bridge unique.
1). There are no massive stone pillars: arches are set onto low pylons that do not protrude above street level. Each pylon rests on a flat slab measuring 31.2 by 40.0 meters.
2). It is the only major downtown bridge that retains tram traffic (routes A, 3, 39 – the last and only tram line inside Garden Ring).

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