how in the middle of the 20th century they built a bridge across the Southern Bug

60 years have passed since the opening of the largest road bridge in Ukraine at that time.

Few of Mykolaiv residents remember how difficult it was for the residents Barbarians, Roots and other areas to get to Nikolaev. It was a real test – to cross a floating bridge made of Christmas tree logs, which bent under the cars, creaked and was as if alive. In 1957, the construction project of a new bridge was approved Southern Bug. This is stated on the Facebook page Mykolaiv regional local history museum.

Therefore, in 1958, the construction of a bridge of a unique design began. It was a big experiment. The supports were assembled on the shore from separate shells to the required thirty-meter length and connected them in a new way, using fittings without flanges. The assembled supports were first rammed with a vibrating submersible, and the hardest layers were washed away with high water pressure.

In the central part, a metal diversion span was installed for the passage of ships. This is the only bridge in Ukraine with a horizontal suspension system. For the first time in the world practice of bridge construction, one-piece reinforced concrete beams with a length of 65.4 meters were manufactured on stands, which were then delivered to the span.

Subsequently, this experience was taken into account during the construction of the largest bridge in Europe at that time across Volga and the Metro bridge in Kyiv.

On July 18, 1964, the connection across the bridge was solemnly opened, and children and newlyweds were the first to cross it.

As of 1964, it was the largest highway bridge in Ukraine. Its length is 750 meters, and with the embankment it is about two kilometers. It united Varvarivka with the central part of Mykolaiv and connected the Odesa — Mykolaiv — Kherson — Zaporizhia highway.

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