Bridges Transfer in Zaporijjia City, Ukraine

Bridges Transfer in Zaporijjia City, Ukraine. New Automobile Bridges Transfer over the Dnieper Rive, over the Old Dnieper river, across the Hotitsa Island by highway in Zaporizhia city, Ukraine after last 20 years active construction officially open in January, 2022 by president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. It consists of two bridges and a 9.1 km long continuous highway, consisting of six interchanges and 27 man-made structures, part of which are two off-grade bridges with separate structures for each direction of traffic. Construction began on August 30, 2004. The cost of construction was previously $460 million, as of 2020 the total cost of the project is estimated at 11.9 billion ₴ (including VAT). The height of the highest pylon of the bridge will be 151 meters, which will make the Zaporizhzhia bridge the highest in Ukraine. In addition to this bridge, there are only two crossings across the Dnieper in the Zaporizhzhia region, both in Zaporizhzhia - the DniproHES dam and the Preobrazhensky bridges. The nearest alternative crossing is the Southern Bridge in the Dnieper. Initially, the project for the construction of a bridge crossing, which would connect the left and right banks of the Dnieper River across Khortytsia Island, was included in the General Plan of the city for 1965-1985. In 1980, Soyuzdorproekt and the Dniprograd Institute developed a feasibility study for a new bridge crossing, but it was not possible to implement it in the 12th Five-Year Plan, since the project was rejected due to the environmental threat to Khortytsia Island. In 1987, the design of the bridge was nevertheless approved by the USSR Council of Ministers. It was assumed that the highway would lie next to the Preobrazhensky bridges and cross Khortytsia Island in its southern part. Already during the independence of Ukraine, in 1997, the Zaporizhia City Council adopted a concept for the city's future development, which provided for a route with bridges across the Dnieper River in the area of Khortytsia Island. In 2003, the feasibility study for the project was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, according to which the total length of the highway was to be 9.1 km, of which 660 m would be the length of the bridge across the Dnieper (between the left bank and Khortytsia) and 260 m — across the Old Dnieper (between Khortytsia and the right bank). According to this project, the bridges with the highway were to be completed by 2010, and the construction cost was to be 1.9 billion ₴ ($356 million). On August 30, 2004, the construction of the bridge began. The mayor of Zaporizhzhia, Yevhen Kartashov, congratulated the contractors on their first day of work on the construction site and himself drove the first stake into the place where the first bridge support was installed. In 2010, 6 years after the start of construction, the government approved amendments to the project, increasing the planned length of the bridge across the Old Dnieper by 80 m. In the new project, the commissioning date was postponed to 2013, and the construction cost was increased to 5.3 billion ₴ ($664 million). As of 2014, when the construction of the bridges stopped due to the cancellation of funding, 118 meters of the structure without a foundation for the road surface had been erected. By this time, during 2004-2013, 2.4 billion ₴ (over $300 million) had already been spent on the construction of the bridges. In 2015, the cost of the project was estimated at 6.6 billion ₴ ($302 million). Within a year, the project was resumed: the construction of a new bridge in Zaporizhia was financed with ₴250 million ($9.8 million). On December 24, 2020, one-lane traffic was opened on the girder bridge (structure No. 5), which leads from the Khortytsya district to the Khortytsya island, across the Stary Dnieper River. In connection with the opening of the upper part of the girder bridge, a new traffic scheme was introduced for vehicles in Zaporizhia. On the new girder bridge and the Preobrazhensky bridge, traffic became one-way. On January 22, 2022, on the Day of Unity of Ukraine, the first part of the cable-stayed bridge was opened with the participation of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. Vehicle traffic began at 16:00 Kyiv time. After the completion of construction, the cable-stayed bridge across the Dnieper River in Zaporizhia will become the eighth highest in Europe (as of August 2021) and the first in Ukraine.

Total length — 5600 m
Across the Dnipro — 660 m
Across the Old Dnipro — 340 m
Width 51.3 m
(25.3 0.7 25.3) m
Structure height 151 m
Arch height above water 24.43 m
Number of lanes 3 1 3
Construction started August 30, 2004
Opened January 22, 2022

Engineers Michail Korniev, Ivan Panasiuk, Olga Sergeeva, Leonid Etnis
Architect Oleg Zavarzin