Dear HiveFam, now I'll show you the bridge that is #1 in the European top.
Moreover, this bridge is really fantastic and super popular because there are a lot of scandals around it. Almost noone outside Russia believed it really would be built. But here it is.
a pic from the web
That's how we see it from the shore.
It's my super zoom camera picture
It's how it looks like in our locak park - its mini copy.
And now how it looks in reality - we had a sea walk directly to it, and now I'll show it to you
And now some interesting facts about it
The bridge across the Kerch Strait is the longest in Russia and Europe.
19 kilometers of the road section was erected in less than 2.5 years and was delivered 7 months earlier than the deadline specified in the schedule. During peak months, more than 14 thousand engineers and workers there.
The idea of uniting the Kerch and Taman peninsulas worried Prince Gleb back in 1046.
In 1870 plans for the construction of a bridge appeared again - this time the concept of connecting the banks attracted the British. But alas, the construction was very expensive.
Construction was preceded by a "cleanup". Sappers found about 700 shells from the Second World War on an area of 200 hectares of the coast and water area of the Kerch Strait. Ecologists have moved 117 animals from the Red Book and thousands of plants. Archaeologists have unearthed more than 3 thousand items from the Bronze Age, Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
In total, the structure is supported by 7000 piles (driven into the ground at 12 and 90 m in the sea) and 595 supports. The scale of the latter is impressive - each one took an average of 400 tons of metal structures.
The completeness of the picture is given by an apt comparison: the construction of the bridge took so much iron, which would be enough to erect 32 Eiffel Towers.
The construction site has a mascot - the cat Mostyk ("bridge" in Russian) It is the most popular cat in Russia! with his own Insta page https://www.instagram.com/cat_the_most/
total construction cost -was 227.9 billion rubles.
4 years of buiding for 3 min can be observed here
