The railway arch has been hoisted to the
abutments over the navigation channel and fastened reliably at the designated
elevation of 35 meters above water.
SIMFEROPOL, August 29. /TASS/. Construction companies said on Tuesday
they had completed installation of the arch of the Crimea bridge in the
permanent position, the Crimea Bridge Information Center said.
"The operation in the sea to complete installation of the Crimea bridge arch is over," the report said.
"The operation in the sea to complete installation of the Crimea bridge arch is over," the report said.
"The railway arch has been hoisted to the abutments over the
navigation channel and fastened reliably at the designated elevation of 35
meters above water."
The center
said the systems of ship warning lights and air navigation signals on the arch
had already been switched on.
"The
final assembly (of the arches) on the navigation channel abutments will take
another three weeks, in the course of which the builders will assemble the end
fittings of the structure and will put them on the supporting
substructures," the report indicated.
Arch spans
are the largest oversize elements of the Crimea bridge. Each of them has a
length of 227 meters. The railway arch span weighs 6,000 tonnes and automobile
arch span, 5,000 tonnes.
After
placement on the navigation channel abutmens, they will ensure the passage of
ships through a spare space 185 meters wide and 35 meters in height.
The second
phase of the operation the installation of the automobile bridge arch, has been
scheduled for September.
The Crimea
bridge is destined to have a length of 19 km. Russia is building it in the
framework of a federal purpose-oriented programme titled 'The Social and
Economic Development of the Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol
through to 2020'.
The government
provides full-size financing of the construction works.
The bridge
will be open for automobile traffic as of December 2018 and for railway
traffic, as of December 2019.
Source: ITAR-TASS 30-08-2017
