Paton Bridge

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Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 35 ″  N , 30 ° 34 ′ 44 ″  E

Paton Bridge
Paton Bridge
The Paton Bridge over the Dnieper in Kiev
Official name Міст Патона / Mist Patona
use Road traffic
Crossing of Dnepr
place Kiev , UkraineUkraineUkraine 
construction Steel bridge
overall length 1543 m
width 21 m
start of building 1941
opening 5th November 1953
construction time ten years
planner Yevgeny Oskarowitsch Paton
location
Paton Bridge (Ukraine)
Paton Bridge

The Paton Bridge ( Ukrainian Міст Патона / Mist Patona ) is a 1543 m long and 21 m wide road bridge over the Dnieper in the south of the center of the Ukrainian capital Kiev . It is named after the Soviet bridge engineer and designer of the bridge, Evgeny Oskarowitsch Paton .

Installation of the welded steel bridge began in June 1941 and was interrupted for two years by World War II. The bridge opened on November 5, 1953, four months after Yevgeny Paton's death, making it the world's first welded girder bridge.

The engineers involved were W. Kyrijenko, I. Marakin, W. Nowykow, W. Trufjakow and O. Schumyzkyj and the architects were W. Ladnyj, B. Pryjmak and I. Fokitschewa.

Over the bridge which runs European route E95 from Druschby-Narodiw Boulevard ( Дружби Народів бульвар ) on the west bank of the Dnieper in pecherskyi district on the south of the Wenezianskyj Island to Sorbonosti brochure on the east bank of the Dnieper in dniprovskyi district of the city of Kiev.

  • Access from the east bank of Denpr

  • The bridge on a Ukrainian postage stamp from 2000

  • The illuminated bridge 2013

  • The bridge at sunset

Web links

Commons : Paton Bridge  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Article on the Paton Bridge on Kievtown.net ; accessed on March 25, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Article on the Paton Bridge in the Kiev Encyclopedia ; accessed on March 25, 2018 (Ukrainian)