Kashirsky bridge, Railway bridge in Kashira, Russia.

The Kashirsky railway bridge spans the Oka River using four steel truss sections, each about 125 meters long, with a total length of approximately 580 meters. It rests on reinforced concrete supports and rises about 20 meters (65 feet) above the water.

The Ryazan-Urals Railway administration built the first bridge here in 1900 to a design by engineer Lavr Proskuryakov, a professor at the Moscow Engineering School. Its four spans of 58 sazhens each gave it the longest spans in European Russia until the Buzan bridge on the Astrakhan line was built. A 1933 reconstruction made the single-track bridge double-track; the six-span bridge was rebuilt by SK MOST between 2001 and 2008, and the oldest bridge closed on 26 November 2008.

The bridge links communities along the Moscow-Paveletsky railway line and has shaped the landscape of this region for over a century. It remains a familiar sight to local residents who use the trains daily.

The best views come from the riverbanks of the Oka or from nearby paths on either side that run alongside the structure. Walk to the water's edge or nearby points to see how the bridge rises above the flow and understand its engineering.

The 1900 bridge had a span of 238 sazhens (about 508 m) in four spans of 58 sazhens each, and until the Astrakhan line bridge over the Buzan was built it held first place in European Russia for span length. The present crossing is the third bridge at this spot; the oldest one was closed on 26 November 2008 and dismantled.