Pivnichnyi Bridge Північний міст | |
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 Pivnichnyi Bridge | |
| Coordinates | 50°29′26″N 30°32′09″E / 50.49056°N 30.53583°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 |
| Opened | December 3, 1976 |
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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.[1]
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.[2] As part of Ukraine's current decommunization process the bridge was nominated to be renamed for almost a year prior to its new name.[3]
- ^ "Pivnichyi Bridge". Wiki-Encyclopedia Kyiv (in Ukrainian).
- ^ Kyiv's Moscow bridge renamed, UNIAN (22 February 2018)
- ^ (in Russian) In Kyiv, "disappear" metro station "Petrovka" and Tolstoy Street: all the details, Segodnya (19 April 2017)