Builders have begun constructing the upper part of the fairway supports of the bridge across the Kerch Strait, the press service of the Crimea Bridge Construction Project reports.
Fairway piers are the largest bridge piers. Each fairway support consists of a pile foundation, a monolithic slab - a grillage, on which racks with crossbars are installed.
Combined supports for the road and railway parts (No. 252 and 253) are being erected on both sides of the fairway of the Kerch-Yenikalsky Canal. They will raise navigable arched spans above the water.
Crossbars have already been installed on the racks of the railway part of the fairway supports - metal structures 25 m long and weighing more than 270 tons each.
The bridge across the Kerch Strait, which will connect Crimea and the Krasnodar Territory, will be the longest in Russia - its length will be 19 kilometers.
