Kerch Strait bridge

The Kerch Strait Bridge is a 19km parallel road-rail bridge connecting the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea, Ukraine, to the Taman Peninsula of Krasnodar Krai, Russia. It is one of the largest bridges being evolved withinside the country. Construction of the bridge commenced in 2015. The dual carriageway opened in May 2018, even as the rail line is predicted to be finished in 2019. The bridge is predicted to be utilized through as many as 40,000 motors and forty-seven pairs of trains a day. This is one of the most expensive bridges ever built in Russia and also in the world.

Traffic needed to go through the Kerch Strait by boat or pressure through Ukraine to attain Crimea from the Russian mainland earlier than the bridge changed into finished. Without Ukraine’s agreement, a phase of a railway opened over the bridge in December 2019, which the European Union criticized as an invasion of Ukraine’s territory. Russia expects it's going to bring hundreds of thousands of automobiles and rail guests and hundreds of thousands of heaps of shipment every year. Previously, all automobile site visitors surpassed over the Kerch strait via way of means of ferry or via way of means of passing thru Ukraine.

Construction costs: $3.7 billion

Location: Krasnodar Krai