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, Ukraine, built in 1976. It is a

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, designed by the architect Mikhail Krasnoshtein (later, Mikhail Asianov) and engineer G. B. Fux. The

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of the main span is held by a cluster of steel ropes which are fixed to a tall A- pylon. It is notable that as a result of Soviet-era state-sponsored anti-semitism, a non-Jewish architect from Kharkiv (A. V. Dobrovolsky) was brought in to take credit for the bridge's architecture just prior to the official opening of the bridge, and this remains the official record. This record forgery was approved by A. F. Bersheda, the Director of the Kyiv architecture bureau (KievSoyuzDorProekt) at the time. Until February 2018 the bridge was named Moskovskyi Bridge () or Moscow Bridge. As part of Ukraine's current decommunization process the bridge was nominated to be renamed for almost a year prior to its new name.In Kyiv, "disappear" metro station "Petrovka" and Tolstoy Street: all the details

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The bridge is actually a composition of two main bridges: a long and wide across the

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, a long, wide across the Desenka ( Desna

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) and includes a road

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at Stepana Bandery prospect and Volodymyra Ivasiuka prospect to the north and Naberezhno-Rybalska road to the south. The major feature of the bridge its pylon in height. It is located on the

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and providing support for the main span across Dnipro. It is a key structure on the northern end of the Kyiv Smaller Beltway, connecting Petrivka to the densely populated north-eastern residential neighborhoods of

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and Voskresenka. From the moment of its construction the bridge was built as a high-speed motorway, which it remains to this day.

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Road bridges in Kyiv Bridges built in the Soviet Union Landmarks in Kyiv Bridges on Trukhaniv Island Bridges completed in 1976 Bridges over the Dnieper Cable-stayed bridges in Ukraine Obolonskyi District 1976 establishments in Ukraine {{Ukraine-bridge-struct-stub

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