Technological bridge across the Kerch Strait for the construction of road and railway route from Russia to Crimea, was subjected to ice attack. Operate the icebreakers, but the fairway seerosen. In the Straits got stuck about a hundred Russian vessels.
I wonder what ice storms along with ice blocks destroyed the Kerch bridge. It was built immediately after the liberation of the Peninsula from materials from German occupation. The bridge collapsed record via 107 days after its construction. A few days before it passed the heads of governments of the coalition, returning from the Yalta conference. But were this train Joseph Stalin, historians have questioned, suggesting that the Soviet dictator had left the Crimea by car through Kherson.
The first who came up with the idea of the bridge was the British — at the dawn of the last century. They planned silk road from London to Delhi. For a start, they paved the bottom of the Kerch Strait Telegraph cable. But to train the caravans went to India, it was necessary to build another bridge across the channel. Capacity and Finance on such a scale was not enough.
The Second world war on the Crimean transition dreaming Stalin. Plans were strong, a Soviet steel — weak. Later the idea was picked up Stalin, Hitler. Before the war allied Germany made for a great friend of the Soviet Union bridge structures. Them along with building materials brought to the Peninsula. And then it was continued by the Stalinists. The bridge was built quickly, that was one of the causes of the disaster. Did not have time to carefully pour all the props, built a icebreaker. But the main destructive role was played by the element. Massive ridges cut more than forty towers.
Interestingly, according to the observations of weather forecasters, ice conditions, monthly temperature, 1944 are very similar to the current weather conditions. However, ice ridges are weaker. But a bridge technology, in comparison with the destruction of the Soviet bridge, as the match against pine.
Stalin was in a hurry, building the Kerch bridge, the additional artery for strategic maneuver forces. Hurry and Putin need food artery of Crimea. The Peninsula is rapidly deteriorating, as in the postwar Stalin era. And Putin needs the bridge as support for his failed Crimean authority. Because the ferry is full load even in a dead calm, and in bad weather the road to the other side to have to wait for hours, stretching them for a day and then two. By the end of the second decade of February in the queue for the ferry were more than a thousand trucks. With the Russian coast drivers, in protest, blocked the driveway.
Kerch bridge, as conceived by Putin’s propagandists, should play the same role, which at the time played for the Brezhnev era Baikal-Amur mainline. BAM with his challenge added emotional piety in the musty stables of the Soviet Union. But today, the Soviet pride lies a billion stuff in the Baikal taiga. The Kerch bridge at Putin turns out worse. The bridge has already failed. Despite the propaganda assurances, Peninsula chronically loses electricity from Russia, while Vladimir Putin personally promised the surplus.
Senior researcher of the Institute of water problems, Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Medovar believes that to build “anything”, but it is unknown how much it will cost and how many will stay. “The example of Rostov — there are two bridges collapsed. Even better example — Borisoglebsk. I saw it myself. It made the bridge and it collapsed and killed someone who stood under it. You know when taken the bridge, he becomes the main designer,” says Russian scientist. Yuri Medovar believes that will collapse and Kerch bridge because it was built on the hollow karst rocks — the supports will go under the ground.
In the meantime, the Crimean inspired by the construction of the bridge, waiting for his second breath. But we must hurry, and so it may happen that Putin will not have time to fulfill the promise. Would go the distance…
Ukraine, perhaps more than Russia is interested in a good construction of the Kerch bridge. After we will return to the Peninsula, it will flee the invaders, and from Russia will begin to carry goods and resources as compensation for damages.
