Syzran railway bridge

Syzran Railway Bridge ; Alexander Bridge
use	Railway bridge
Crossing of	Volga
place	Syzran
construction	Truss bridge
overall length	1483 m / 1490 m
Number of openings	13
Longest span	107 m / 109 m
start of building	1876
opening	August 30, 1880/2004
planner	Nikolai Beleljubski, Konstantin Michailowski
	location

53.173055555556 48.7975Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 23 " N , 48 ° 47 ′ 51" E

The syzran bridge , also Alexander bridge called ( Russian Сызранский мост, Александровский мост ), the railway track Syzran - Samara approximately 22.5 kilometers east of the station Syzran on the Volga .

When it opened in 1880, the bridge was named after the tsar to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the reign of Alexander II . After the October Revolution in 1917, it was given the name of the nearby place. The name Alexander Bridge has been used again since the end of the Soviet Union .

Alexander Bridge (1880)

Alexander Bridge around 1880

The Alexander Bridge was built between 1876 and 1880 as part of the Orenburg Railway according to plans by Nikolai Belelubsky and Konstantin Michailowski . It was the first railway bridge over the middle and lower reaches of the Volga and with a length of 1483 meters the longest in Europe at the time. The single-track bridge had 13 wrought iron , parallel - belted lattice girders with spans of 107 meters each. The high stone pillars had distinctive, sloping flow dividers reaching far into the upper water, which served as ice breakers and successfully withstood the ice drift.

In 1918 supporters of the Komutsch who had to withdraw from the Bolsheviks blew up two bridges. However, the damage was soon repaired. Over the decades, maintenance and repair work has been carried out according to the age of the bridge and the bridge has been reinforced again and again.

From 1948 to 1957, the bridge was expanded for double-track traffic.

Truss bridge (2004)

In 2003 and 2004 the superstructure of the bridge was completely renewed. The existing pillars could continue to be used. 13 double girders - one girder for each track - with spans of 109 meters each, were installed on them, making a total of 26 girders made of riveted steel profiles . The girders were prefabricated on land and then floated into place on the pillars . The structure is now 1,490 meters long. On the left side of the Volga, the actual bridge is followed by an approximately 5.8 kilometers long dam over the flood bed and old river arms.

Web links

Commons : Syzran Railway Bridge - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Alexander Bridge - historical photos on old syzran.ru

130th Birthday of the Alexander Bridge on a private website

Plan drawing, presented by Belelubsky in 1889 at the Congrès international des procédés de construction in Paris (on cnum.cnam.fr)

Individual evidence

↑ hydraulic engineering and bridge structures; new Volga bridge near Syzran. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung No. 77 of September 25, 1880, p. 416 (p. 41 of 45 in the PDF)
↑ Georg Christoph Mehrtens: Wide-span current u. Thalbrücken d. Modern times. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung Volume X, No. 35 (from August 30, 1890), pp. 357–360 ( digitized version ); No. 35A (of September 3, 1890), pp. 366-370, p. 367 ( digitized version )
↑ syzran bridge on the site of SKMOST

[1] hydraulic engineering and bridge structures; new Volga bridge near Syzran. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung No. 77 of September 25, 1880, p. 416 (p. 41 of 45 in the PDF)

[2] Georg Christoph Mehrtens: Wide-span current u. Thalbrücken d. Modern times. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung Volume X, No. 35 (from August 30, 1890), pp. 357–360 ( digitized version ); No. 35A (of September 3, 1890), pp. 366-370, p. 367 ( digitized version )

[3] syzran bridge on the site of SKMOST