Danube Bridge

Giurgiu–Ruse Bridge
Giurgiu–Ruse Bridge
Coordinates	43°53′22″N 26°0′19″E / 43.88944°N 26.00528°E
Carries	Two lanes of road and railway traffic, pedestrians
Crosses	Danube
Locale	Between Giurgiu, Romania and Ruse, Bulgaria, at river kilometre 488.70
Other name(s)	Friendship Bridge
Characteristics
Design	Truss bridge
Total length	2,223 m (7,293 ft)
Clearance below	30 m (98 ft)
History
Designer	V. Andreev; N. Rudomazin; Georgi Ovcharov (decoration)
Construction start	1952
Opened	20 June 1954
Location

The Danube Bridge (also known as the Friendship Bridge;^[1]^[2] Bulgarian: Мост на дружбата, Most na druzhbata or, more commonly, Дунав Mост, Dunav most; Romanian: Podul Prieteniei or Podul de la Giurgiu) is a steel truss bridge over the Danube River connecting the Bulgarian bank to the south with the Romanian bank to the north and the cities of Ruse and Giurgiu respectively. It is one of only two bridges connecting Romania and Bulgaria, the other one being the New Europe Bridge between the cities of Vidin and Calafat.

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