Antonivka Railway Bridge

Not to be confused with the nearby Antonivka Road Bridge.

Antonivka Rail Bridge
Antonivka Railway Bridge
Coordinates46.6754°N 32.797°E / 46.6754; 32.797
CarriesKherson–Kerch railway line
CrossesDnieper
LocaleKherson, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine
Rail characteristics
No. of tracks1
History
Opened12 December 1954
CollapsedNovember 2022
Statistics
Daily traffic0
Location

The Antonivka Railway Bridge (Ukrainian: Антонівський залізничний міст, romanized: Antonivskiy zaliznichniy mist, Russian: Антоновский железнодорожный мост, romanized: Antonovsky zheleznodorozhniy most) was a single-track railway bridge over the Dnieper, in the Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. It connected rail networks in Ukraine on either side of Dnieper. The Kherson–Kerch Railway line ran over the bridge. The bridge was destroyed during the retreat of Russian troops in November 2022.[1]

Geographical location

The bridge is located at kilometre 43.5 of the river[2] near the confluence of the Inhulets and the Dnieper and six kilometres east of the urban settlement of Antonivka, in Kherson, after which it was named.

History

The construction of the bridge began in 1939, but with the beginning of the German-Soviet war it was interrupted after the first pillars had been installed. The Germans built a railway bridge some distance downstream, which was destroyed during the war.

A railway engineering regiment familiar with overcoming water barriers was commissioned in 1949 to build the nearly one kilometre-long strategic bridge. The railway bridge was put into operation on 12 December 1954.[3][4]

In the course of the Russian attack on Ukraine beginning in 2022, the bridge became strategically important as a route for Russian troops heading west. After the bridge had fallen into Russian hands during the first days of the war, it was made impassable by Ukrainian air raids during the summer of 2022.[5] The bridge was completely destroyed in November 2022 during the withdrawal of Russian troops from the area to the west of the Dnieper, as also was the nearby Antonivka Road Bridge.[6]

See also

References
  1. "Tweet from OSINTtechnical". twitter.com. Retrieved 26 June 2023. Footage has been circling telegram showing the Russians dropping the Kherson rail bridge over the Dnipro.
  2. "Die Antoniwka-Eisenbahnbrücke auf der Webseite des Fluss-Information-Service der ukrainischen Wasserstraßen" [The Antonivka railway bridge on the Ukrainian Waterways River Information Service website]. ukrris.com.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  3. "Article on the bridge (Page no longer available, determined in October 2022. Search in web archives.)". andigu.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  4. "Antoniwka-Eisenbahnbrücke auf mycity.kherson.ua" [Antonivka railway bridge on mycity.kherson.ua]. mycity.kherson.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  5. "Antoniwka-Brücke erneut angegriffen" [Antonivka Bridge attacked again]. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  6. "Tweet from bayraktar_1love". twitter.com. Retrieved 11 November 2022. Russian sources also claim that in addition to Antonovsky bridge, the Antonovsky railway bridge, which is located slightly upstream, was also blown up
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