Another year has passed since the construction of the bridge across the Kerch Strait. The first supports were delivered in February 2016. By February 2018. the main design of the road bridge - piles, supports and spans - are ready. By December 2018 builders will put asphalt on the road and equip the roadway. "The most complex technological operations of large-scale construction took place in 2017. The builders connected the banks of Taman and Kerch with automobile spans, erected near the fairway two large supports with a height of 35 m, to which navigable arches. The sea operation for transportation and lifting to the design height of overall structures in the sea conditions was the first in the practice of domestic bridge construction, "- informs the information center" Crimean Bridge ".

Deputy General Director for Infrastructure Projects of the company "Stroygazmontazh" Leonid Ryzhenkin said that over 13 thousand work on the construction of the bridge across the Kerch Strait. human. "The team works around the clock, in any weather. Here everyone understands how this bridge is waiting on the two banks of the strait ". - emphasized Ryzhen'kin. The bridge that will connect the Crimea with the mainland of Russia will be the longest in the country. The length of the Crimean bridge will be 19 kilometers, the automobile traffic on it will begin in December 2018.