Medvedkovo Metro Bridge, Metro bridge in North-Eastern Administrative Okrug, Russia.
Medvedkovo Metro Bridge is a covered reinforced-concrete bridge over the Yauza River in Moscow, on the Babushkinskaya–Medvedkovo stretch of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line. It has two spans and carries tunnel sections in concrete tubing, covered with earth. At 42.5 m long, it is the Moscow Metro's shortest metro bridge, with about 2 m clearance above the water and footpaths on both banks.
Built in 1978 when the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line was extended north to Medvedkovo station, the bridge carries the tunnel section between Babushkinskaya and Medvedkovo over the Yauza. It is a reinforced-concrete, two-span structure, 42.5 m long, and lies about 250 m south of Medvedkovo station.
The bridge lies in the recreational floodplain of the Yauza, and walkways run along both banks beneath it. It marks the boundary between the Severnoye Medvedkovo and Babushkinsky districts and stands about 250 m south of Medvedkovo station, at the exit to Grekova Street and Shokalsky Passage.
The bridge lies 250 m south of Medvedkovo station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line, between Babushkinskaya and Medvedkovo. Walkable paths run along both banks of the Yauza beneath it, through gaps about 2 m high; the clearance over the water is roughly 2 m. The span is 42.5 m long, about one and a half metro cars.
The bridge is only 42.5 m long, about one and a half metro cars, making it the shortest metromost in the Moscow Metro. It stands 250 m south of Medvedkovo station, and the clearance over the Yauza is about 2 m above the water, roughly 3–4 m from the riverbed.
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