Borisovsky Bridges, Concrete arch bridge in Borisovo district, Moscow, Russia.
Borisovsky Bridges are a pair of road bridges over the Borisovsky Ponds on the Kashirskoye Highway, built in 1972 to designs by engineer O. V. Sosonko and architect K. P. Saveliev. The Upper and Lower bridges run at different levels where the highway splits, and each is divided into two 102 m spans by a man-made island in the pond; the spans use pre-stressed reinforced concrete.
The bridges opened in 1972 as part of Moscow's Soviet-era infrastructure expansion that connected southern districts more directly to the city center. They marked an important step in relieving traffic congestion during rapid urban growth.
The name is plural because each of the two bridges is split by a man-made island in Borisovsky Pond, giving four spans in all. The lower bridge carries traffic toward central Moscow, the upper one away from it, each with four lanes. Buses m83, m86, 899, s823 and s848 stop at the 'Borisovsky Most' stop.
The bridges carry the Kashirskoye Highway across the Borisovsky Ponds on the border of the Moskvorechye-Saburovo and Orekhovo-Borisovo Severnoye districts. Traffic toward the city centre runs on the Lower Borisovsky Bridge, traffic out of the city on the Upper one, each with four lanes. Buses m83, m86, 899, s823 and s848 stop at the Borisovsky Most stop.
The spans, 31 and 39 metres long, are made of pre-stressed reinforced concrete, not steel. The artificial island in the middle of Borisovsky Pond splits each bridge into two 102-metre sections, giving 284 metres with the approaches.
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