Krasnoyarsk Bridge

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The new Krasnoyarsk Bridge, as viewed from the left bank of the river.

Krasnoyarsk Railway Bridge in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, carries the Krasnoyarsk Railway (part of the Trans-Siberian Railway) across the Yenisei. The structure was constructed between 1893 and 1896 to Lavr Proskuryakov's design, which was awarded the Gold Medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900) by a special committee led by Gustave Eiffel.

When approved for the inscription on the World Heritage List in 2001, the bridge was described by the ICOMOS as "an early representation of a typical parabolic polygonal truss bridge in Russia" which became "a testing ground for the application of engineering theories and the development of new innovative solutions, which had numerous successors."[1] The local authorities, however, had it dismantled and replaced with a new bridge by 2007.

References

  1. ↑ International Council on Monuments and Sites (2003). "Evaluations of Cultural Properties" (PDF). UNESCO World Heritage Committee. pp. 11–13. 

Coordinates: 55°59′21″N 92°48′45″E / 55.9891°N 92.8124°E / 55.9891; 92.8124


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