Zaporizhzhia, motorway across the Dnipro River

Mostobud started building the motorway with bridges across the Dnipro River and the Old Dnipro in 2004. It includes two major bridges of original design:

• a cable-stayed bridge across the main course of the Dnipro River;

• a running-doe rigid-frame bridge across the Old Dnipro.

The motorway has 27 engineering structures in total.

Main structure — cable-stayed bridge across the Dnipro:

• navigation span — 260 m, supported by parallel stays;

• two separate pylons on a shared foundation carry each direction of traffic;

• pylon height — 165 m (monolithic reinforced concrete);

• stiffening girders — 10KhSND-2 grade steel;

• stays — single twisted closed cables 93 mm in diameter;

• bridge scheme — 80+260+80+80+80+80 = 660 m.

Running-doe rigid-frame bridge across the Old Dnipro: 340 m span, 10KhSND-2 steel.

Motorway key figures:

• construction length of the motorway — 9.1 km;

• category — city motorway;

• design speed — 80 km/h;

• capacity — 60,000 vehicles/day one-way (3 lanes);

• lanes — 6; lane width — 3.75 m;

• total bridge-structure length — 4.484 km;

• interchanges — 6.

General designer: Kyivsouzdorproekt. General contractor: Mostobud.