Komsomolsk-on-Amur road-rail bridge, Railway bridge in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia.
The Komsomolsk-on-Amur road-rail bridge crosses the Amur on nine reinforced-concrete piers, with a light gray steel truss of crisscrossing diagonals carrying a single rail track and a two-lane road on brackets downstream of the railway spans. It is 1,435.32 m long and rises 24 m above the water. A narrow four-legged steel tower stands atop the truss near the centre-left, and steel cables angle upward above the deck on the right.
Construction began in 1969, with the railway section opening in 1975 and the road section completed in 1981. This project replaced earlier ferry services and made year-round traffic possible across the river.
The bridge serves as a symbol of Soviet effort to connect Russia's far east with the western part of the country. It represents how transport infrastructure shaped the growth of this Siberian city.
The bridge is not open to pedestrians and serves only vehicles and trains. The best views of the structure from water level come from river tours or from the riverbanks near the city.
During construction, engineers used an innovative drilling method for hard rock that became standard in later Russian bridge projects. This was a pioneering achievement in the country's bridge engineering techniques.
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