The builders of the Crimean Bridge, two years after the start of construction work in the Kerch Strait, summed up the interim results of the implementation of the most ambitious infrastructure project in modern Russia.
The first piles were loaded in February 2016. Construction and installation work began immediately after approval from Glavgosexpertiza.
“Two years later, by February 2018, the main structures of the road part of the bridge were built: piles were loaded, supports were formed, spans were installed. By December, the facility will be delivered on schedule: the builders will have to complete the asphalting of the road and equip the roadway,” noted the Crimean Bridge information center.
More than half of the work on the key elements of the railway section was completed: 95 percent of the piles were loaded, 190 of 307 supports were formed, and more than 40 thousand of the 160 thousand tons of metal structures of the spans were assembled.
This year, bridge crews are working on the offshore sections of the railway construction: at one of them the spans are already being moved over the water area.
As Leonid Ryzhenkin, Deputy General Director for Infrastructure Projects at Stroygazmontazh, said, more than 13 thousand people are working on the construction of the facility.
“The team works around the clock, in any weather. Everyone here understands how much they are waiting for this bridge on both sides of the strait,” he noted.
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. The start of vehicle traffic on it is scheduled for December 2018.
