Struwe Railway Bridge

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Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 59 ″  N , 30 ° 35 ′ 9 ″  E

Struwe Railway Bridge
Struwe Railway Bridge
The Struwe Railway Bridge in 1870
Official name Да́рницкий железнодо́рожный мост (А. Е. Струве)
Crossing of Dnepr
place Kiev
construction Lattice girder bridge
overall length 1067.6 m
Number of openings 12
building-costs 3.2 million rubles
start of building March 1868
completion February 17, 1870
Status Destroyed June 1920
planner Amand Jegorowitsch Struwe
location
Struwe Railway Bridge (Ukraine)
Struwe Railway Bridge

The Struve Railway Bridge ( Ukrainian міст А. Є. Струве , Russian Мост Струве ) was on the Dnepr leading girder bridge in Kiev . It connected Kiev with the northeastern provinces of the Russian Empire, Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

The first all-metal railway bridge across the Dnieper had 11 piers and 12 openings, each 292 feet (89  m ) long. She was in the nineteenth century with a total length of 500.4 Saschen (1067.6 m) one of the longest bridges in the Russian Empire . The single-track, partly white-painted bridge was crossed by the trains at a speed of 15 miles per hour.

history

General view of the Struwe railway bridge, 1870

The bridge was built between March 1868 and February 1870 by the military engineer Amand Jegorowitsch Struwe (1835–1989) on behalf of Emperor Alexander II and cost a total of 3.2 million rubles . It was opened on February 17, 1870 by a train on the Kiev- Kursk Railway, and on April 4, 1870, it was opened to scheduled services. In June 1920 the bridge was blown up by the withdrawing Polish troops during the Polish-Soviet War . The Darnyzkyj Railway Bridge was built near the destroyed bridge in 1925 .

Web links

Commons : Struwe-Eisenbahnbrücke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Germans in the History of Kiev - Amand Struwe on the website of the Center for German Culture "Wiederstrahl" ; accessed on August 28, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b Struwe Bridge on mostpro.ru (Russian), accessed on September 22, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Struwe Railway Bridge in the Kiev Encyclopedia , (Ukrainian) accessed on September 22, 2015
  4. ↑ Detailed article on the Struwe Railway Bridge (Ukrainian), accessed on September 23, 2015
  5. ↑ Darnyzkyi Railway Bridge in the Kiev Encyclopedia , (Ukrainian) accessed on September 22, 2015