This bridge spans the Eastern Bosporus Strait, connecting Russki Island with the city of Vladivostok in Russia. In 2012, it became the world's longest cable-stayed bridge.
The Vladivostok Bridge has four lanes for traffic. All the structure, bridge (1,885 m) and viaducts, It has a total length of 3,100 meters, with a central span of 1,104 m, and a nearly 30 meters wide.
This impressive feat of engineering features two towers about 321 meters high, from which extend struts made of cables 15 millimeters in diameter. The lThe length of these struts ranges from 580 to 136 meters. The towers of this bridge are the tallest in the world, and its cables are the longest.
During its design, the shortest distance between the two shores—1,460 meters—was taken into account as the reason for building the bridge in this area, as well as the fact that the depth of the navigation channel was greater than 50 meters.
Both the design and construction of this bridge were affected by the harsh weather conditions in the area: the extreme temperature variations, ranging from -31 degrees Celsius to 37 degrees Celsius; wind speeds exceeding 100 kilometers per hour; high waves during storms; and the great thickness of the ice layers during cold periods.
Construction of this cable-stayed bridge began in September 2008, and it was opened to traffic in 2012.
