Merefa-Kherson bridge

Merefa-Kherson bridge
Coordinates	48°28′03″N 35°04′58″E / 48.4674°N 35.0827°E / 48.4674; 35.0827
Carried	Merefa-Kherson railway line
Crossed	Dnieper river
Official name	Мерефо-Херсонський міст
Characteristics
Material	Steel and reinforced concrete
Total length	1,627 metres (5,338 ft)
Longest span	2 × 109 metres (358 ft)
History
Construction start	1912
Construction end	1932, 1951
Opened	1932, 21 December
Collapsed	1914, 1940, 1944 (destroyed by troops)
Location

The Merefa-Kherson bridge (Ukrainian: Мерефо-Херсонський міст, Russian: Мерефо-Херсонский мост) is a 1,600 m (5,249.3 ft) single track railway bridge crossing the Dnieper in Dnipro and part of the railway line between cities of Merefa and Kherson.^[1]

The second oldest bridge in the city, and the first railway-arch bridge in the Soviet Union, at the time of its construction it was the longest reinforced concrete arched bridge in Europe.^[2]

It crosses from the right bank of the Dnieper, over the "Bishop's Channel" ("Архієрейська протока") and Monastyrskyi Island, continuing over the main body of the river to its left bank.