Pivnichnyi Bridge

Pivnichnyi Bridge

Північний міст
Pivnichnyi Bridge; Північний міст
	Pivnichnyi Bridge
Coordinates	50°29′26″N 30°32′09″E / 50.49056°N 30.53583°E
Carries	Automobiles
Crosses	Dnieper River
Locale	Kyiv, Ukraine
Other name	Moskovskyi Bridge
Owner	Ukraine
Followed by	Rybalskyi Railroad Bridge
Characteristics
Total length	816 m
Width	31.4 m
Height	119 m
Longest span	300 m
History
Designer	Mikhail Krasnoshtein; Anatoliy Dobrovolskyi
Engineering design by	Heorhiy Fuks
Construction start	1971; 55 years ago
Opened	December 3, 1976; 49 years ago
Location
	Interactive map of Pivnichnyi Bridge

The Pivnichnyi Bridge (Ukrainian: Північний міст [piu̯ˈn⁽ʲ⁾itʃnɪj ˈmist]) or Northern Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in Kyiv, Ukraine, built in 1976. It was designed by the architect Anatoly Dobrovolsky and engineer Georgiy Fuks (G. B. Fuchs). The beam of the main span is held by a cluster of steel ropes which are fixed to a 119 m (390 ft) tall A-pylon. The bridge also acts as a segment of the Small Ring Road of Kyiv.

Until February 2018 the bridge was named Moskovskyi Bridge (Ukrainian: Московський міст, Moskovskyi Mist) 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.

Overview

The bridge was designed by Anatoly Dobrovolsky and engineered under lead of engineer Georgiy Fuks/Fuchs, who also designed the Pivdennyi Bridge and Metro Bridge. The major feature of the bridge its 119 m (390 ft) high pylon on Trukhaniv Island, designed by Dobrovolsky.

The bridge is actually a composition of two main bridges: a 816 m (2,677 ft) long and 31.4 m (103 ft) wide across the Dnipro, a 732 m (2,402 ft) long, 29.1 m (95 ft) wide across the Desenka (Desna distributary) and includes a road interchange at Stepana Bandery prospect and Volodymyra Ivasiuka prospect to the north and Naberezhno-Rybalska road to the south.

The bridge opened on 3 December 1976. 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 Troieshchyna and Voskresenka. From the moment of its construction the bridge was built as a high-speed motorway, which it remains to this day, forming part of the Small Ring Road of Kyiv. It is notorious for frequent accidents and traffic jams.

The Monument to the Founders of Kyiv was originally planned to be placed on the bridge, but this idea was abandoned due to its excessive weight, the sculpture being placed in a nearby park instead.