Pile foundations of the railway section of the bridge across the Kerch Strait are ready - builders laid the last tubular pile in the base of the support 254. This is reported on the website info center "Crimean Bridge". It is noted that during the construction in the bottom of the strait 6 thousand. 694 piles. The supports of the railway bridge are massive, and in its foundations there are more piles than in the road section: 2 thousand. 788 turbosvay versus 2 thousand. 576. During the construction of the Crimean bridge piles were installed both vertically and sloping. To ensure that they are not destroyed in an aggressive marine environment, each pipeline is equipped with a reinforced concrete core, the height of which varies depending on the depth of the water area and the nature of the soil. The deepest sinking of the pile occurred on the section between the island of Tuzla and the channel - it was set at 108 meters under the water.

Installation of piles in the foundations of the piers of the motorway part of the bridge was completed a year ago, and today the piles were completed under the railway. The bridge across the Kerch Strait, which connected the Crimea with mainland Russia, is the longest in the country, its length is 19 kilometers. President Vladimir Putin inaugurated the motor traffic across the bridge on May 15. It is planned that the trains will begin to walk from the Krasnodar Territory to the Crimea and back in 2019.