Чёртов мост, Railway bridge in Kholmsky District, Russia

Chertov Bridge is a curved steel railway bridge on the abandoned Nikolaichuk–Kamyshovo-Sakhalinsk line in Kholmsky District. Its lattice truss, faded pale paint, rests on tall tapering concrete piers, and the track runs along the flat top. The span passes 41 metres above the entrance to the lower tunnel, a stone and concrete portal with a rounded arch at the foot of a green slope.

The loop section opened on 3 September 1928, built by the Karafuto Agency to link Toyohara on the east coast with Maoka on the west. In August 1945 Soviet troops advancing from Maoka fought Japanese forces here; the bridge became known as the Devil's Bridge. The line closed in 1994 after tunnel damage and was formally abolished in 1996.

The Japanese-built line was called the most beautiful railway in the USSR. Since the 2010s, Kholmsk authorities have worked to turn the loop and its Japanese-era structures into a nature and technology reserve. Tourist trains from Nikolaichuk run to the bridge in summer, and the bridge is now called Chertov Most, or Devil's Bridge, after the 1945 fighting.

The bridge is only for train traffic and cannot be crossed on foot or by vehicle. For photographing the structure, visiting early in the day offers the best light and fewer obstacles from weather.

The Russian name "Chyortov most" means Devil's Bridge, but it comes from the heavy fighting of August 1945, not from a legend: Soviet troops advancing from Maoka met stubborn Japanese resistance here, and the bridge was called "the devil's bridge" afterwards. The nearby platform Nikolaichuk, 5 km away, is named after Junior Sergeant Boris Nikolaichuk, who died in that fighting.