The Eiffel Bridge is a bridge over the Tsemistskal river, on the

Borjomi–Bakuriani railway The Kukushka (Russian for "little cuckoo") is a long narrow-gauge railway line linking the town of Borjomi (820 m asl) to the daba and ski resort of Bakuriani (1,700 m asl) in Georgia. The construction of this line began in 1897, when Geor ...

near the town of

Tsagveri Tsagveri () is a daba in Borjomi Municipality in the Samtskhe–Javakheti region of Georgia. The daba has a population of 799, as of 2014. Tsagveri is located on the northern slopes of the Trialeti Range Trialeti Range ( ka, თრიალე ...

History

Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (25 October 1832 – 18 December 1909) was the fourth son and seventh child of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia. He was the first owner of the New Michael Palace on the Palace Quay in ...

ordered the bridge from the French engineer-constructor and bridge builder

Gustave Eiffel Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (born Bonickhausen dit Eiffel; ; ; 15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923) was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway ...

. The construction of the bridge started in 1897 over the Tsemistskal River. The construction of the bridge was carried out by the constructor Besarion Keburia . From January 1902, the first "Kukushka" train passed through the Borjomi-Bakuriani narrow-gauge railway line and over the bridge.

References

External links

travelinborjomi.ge

ambebi.ge
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