Bridge on Yamal longest above the Arctic Circle
Gazprom has finished building of a 4 km long bridge on the Yamal peninsula. The bridge runs through one of the most difficult areas on the route for the new railway to the Bovanekovo gas field.
The bridge – the world’s longest above the Arctic Cirlce – was opened on Thursday by Head of Gazprom Aleksey Miller. The bridge runs across the Yuribey River floodplain as part of a major new railway to delivers workers and equipment to Yamal. The bridge was built in less than a year, Komsomolskaya Pravda reports.
The river Yuribey runs over permafrost, crosses Yamal peninsula and runs into the Kara Sea. In the wintertime the river is only a narrow band of ice, but in the summer melting snow makes the river several kilometers wide in just a couple of days, web siteRuschudo.ru writes.
