![]() The Germans blew up the bridge under the eyes of the Soviet landing force unit. Destroyed in the first months of the Great Patriotic War, it was restored during German occupation by forced labor, and was destroyed again by retreating German troops.ĭuring the Battle of Kyiv, Red Army's attempt to catch the bridge by landing forces was unsuccessful. The replacement Darnytskyi railroad bridge was built in the early 1920s but shared the fate of the Bosch Bridge. A pontoon bridge was built on its place by forced labour under German occupation, which was destroyed again by German troops retreating from Kyiv. ![]() įollowing the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union, the bridge was destroyed on September 18, 1941, by retreating Soviet forces. The Yevheniya Bosch Bridge was named after the former Soviet People's Secretary of Internal Affairs and a fierce Bolshevik, Yevgeniya Bosch. The construction overseen by Paton was finished by 1925. The year of 1923 passed in arguing between the two proposals. He ended up proposing to construct a totally new bridge but this proposal was declined by the supporters of the reusing of the old elements from underwater. However, rusting made the metallic parts of the old bridge unusable and for the following two years Paton worked on several projects of the Nicholas bridge's restoration. Within months after the Polish troops blew up the original chain bridge, that very summer 1920 the Ukrainian engineer Evgeny Paton proposed the reconstruction project that would have reused the old chains to be lifted from under water. Restored by forced labor of war prisoners and civilians during German occupation they were blown up again by Germans when they retreated from Kyiv in November 1943. New bridges were built in the early Soviet years but were destroyed in the first months of the 1941 Nazi German invasion. In 1965 in its place was erected the Metro Bridge and the Rusanivsky Metropolitan Bridge (extension of the first) which both are part of the Svyatoshyno-Brovary Subway Line (SBL).īetween World War I and World War II The bridge was designed by architect V.Apishkov. Rusanivsky bridge connected the Darnytsia region with the city of Kyiv by the Brovary chaussée (highway). The bridge was built in 1906 and was blown up in 1943 by the retreating forces of Nazi Germany. Similarly to the Nicholas Bridge, the Struve Bridge survived World War I and the Civil war, but was blown up in 1920 by the retreating Polish troops ( see: Kyiv Offensive). On Februthe first train by the Kyiv- Kursk railroad company arrived through the bridge to the Kyiv railroad station. ![]() During the construction Struve first in the Russian Empire used caisson method to lay the foundation. Standing on 13 piers, over 1 km (0.62 mi) long, the bridge was the longest in Europe at that time. This over 1 kilometre long railroad truss bridge was initially named to its constructor, engineer Struve. The Struve Railroad Bridge, Kyiv's second stationary bridge, was built in 1868–1870 with the construction supervision conducted personally by Amand Struve. Records exist about another floater in the 17th century with stationary approaches from the shores.Īn 1870s postcard of the Struve Railroad Bridge It was located near Vyshhorod or, according to different accounts, near the Vydubychi Monastery. Stationary bridges existed in Kyiv from the mid-19th century, but none of them survived the turbulent events that followed the 1917 Russian Revolution.Īccording to the chronicles, the earliest floating bridge across the Dnieper River in the area was built in the 1115. Temporary floater bridges were known to have existed since the 12th century. Currently there are eight bridges spanning across the river and a few dozen bridges across the canals and Dnieper tributaries.ĭue to the location and the width of the river, the bridges have always been a very attractive and hard to realize option throughout the long history of Kyiv. Additionally, several tributaries join the Dnieper inside or just north or south of the historic city. Kyiv, historically situated on the right bank of the Dnieper River, now covers both banks of the river whose width, as it flows through the city, reaches several hundred metres. Some bridges in Kyiv (top to bottom): Pivnichnyi Bridge, Metro Bridge, Paton Bridge.
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