Russky Island Bridge
| Russky Bridge | |
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Bridge is completed as of July 2012
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| Carries | 4 lanes, (2 lanes each way) |
| Crosses | Eastern Bosphorus Strait |
| Locale | Vladivostok (Nazimov peninsula) & Russky Island (Novosilsky cape) |
| Official name | Russky Bridge |
| Maintained by | SK MOST and NPO Mostovik |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Cable-stayed bridge |
| Total length | 3,100 meters (10,200 ft) |
| Width | 29.5 meters (97 ft) |
| Height | 320.9 meters (1,053 ft) |
| Longest span | 1,104 meters (3,622 ft) |
| Clearance above | 70 m |
| History | |
| Construction cost | $1.1 billion USD (estimated) |
| Opened | July 2012 |
Coordinates: 43°03′47″N 131°54′30″E / 43.06306°N 131.90833°E
The Russky Bridge (Russian: Русский мост – Russian Bridge) is a bridge built across the Eastern Bosphorus strait, to serve the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference that took place in Vladivostok in 2012. The bridge connects the mainland part of the city (Nazimov peninsula) with Russky Island, where the main activities of the summit took place. The bridge was completed in July 2012 and opened by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. On September 3, 2012, the bridge was officially given its name.
The bridge to Russky Island is the world's longest cable-stayed bridge, with a 1104 m long central span.
The bridge also has the second highest pylons after the Millau Viaduct and the longest cable stays.
The design of the bridge crossing has been determined on the basis of two primary factors:
The piles were driven as deep as 77 m below ground and on the island side 120 auger piles were piled under each of the two 320 m high bridge towers.
The pylons were concreted using custom self-climbing forms in pours of 4.5 m. A crane was used on the first three pours, afterwards the formwork was completed unaided moving through the hydraulic motion of modular elements.
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