Central Bridge
Description:
The longest bridge in Ukraine today is located in the city of Dnepropetrovsk and today it is called "Central". The names “New” and “White” are also popular. The length of this bridge is 1478 meters, and its width is 21 meters. Although on November 5, 1966 it was solemnly opened under the name "Bridge named after the 50th anniversary of the Great October", but now this name has gone into the annals of history.
The central bridge is an automobile bridge, it connects the center of Dnepropetrovsk with its left bank part (exit to the prospectus. The truth. By the mid-60s, the city had two planning zones: Right-bank, with three districts (Central, Western, Southern) and Left-Bank (North and Eastern districts).
These areas formed chains stretched along the Dnieper. They had to be connected by crossing the bridge over the Dnieper. Interestingly, the Central Bridge was built on the site of an old wooden bridge built by soldiers of the Soviet army in 1944, by 1966 it was already in disrepair.