The
Crimean Bridge,
also called the Kerch Strait Bridge, is a pair of Russian Constructed
parallel bridges, spanning the Strait of Kerch between the Taman Peninsula of
Krasnodar Krai and the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea.
The
road bridge was opened for non-truck cars on May 16, 2018 and for trucks on
October 1. The rail bridge was
inaugurated on December 23, 2019 and the first scheduled passenger train
crossed the bridge on December 25, 2019, while the opening of the bridge for
freight trains is scheduled for July 1, 2020.
With
a length of 11.8 miles, it is the longest bridge Russia has ever built and
the longest in Europe.
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