Shelepikhinsky Bridge, Concrete beam bridge across the Moskva River in Moscow, Russia
The Shelepikhinsky Bridge is a three-span reinforced-concrete beam bridge of frame-cantilever design across the Moskva River, linking Shmitovsky Passage and Bolshaya Filevskaya Street. Its two box girders vary in height from 6.4 m over the supports to 2.0 m at midspan, with spans of 58.5 + 128.0 + 58.0 m. The full structure with approaches is 696 m long; the bridge itself is 260.5 m long and 29.6 m wide, with two 10.5 m roadways and two 2.65 m sidewalks.
The bridge was built in 1965 to a design by engineer N. N. Rudomazin and architect K. N. Yakovlev of Giprotransmost. A major reconstruction took place in 2006–2007 without halting traffic, repairing one half of the bridge and then the other. It was originally named the Krasnopresnensky Bridge.
The bridge links two distinct parts of Moscow and shapes how people move between neighborhoods on either side of the river. Its design marks a modern phase in the city's development and is part of the daily routes residents use to cross the river.
The bridge is open to pedestrians every day with safe walking paths separate from traffic. It is better to walk the pedestrian paths during less busy times if you prefer a quieter experience.
The bridge is the highest of Moscow's bridges over the Moskva River, standing 3 metres above the other city bridges that carry traffic on their upper deck, two-tier structures aside. Its design also differs from the similar Avtozavodsky Bridge: the cantilevers of the river and bank spans are symmetrical about the pier, which simplified the precast elements and reduced the counterweights at the bridge ends.
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