After the restoration work was completed, traffic was started on the second railway line of the Crimean Bridge. About this on Friday, May 5, informed Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin in his telegram channel.
According to its Deputy Prime Minister, the launch of full-fledged rail traffic was carried out ahead of schedule.
“The builders have accomplished a real feat in restoring this important facility,” the report said.
Khusnullin pointed out that the specialists worked around the clock in two shifts. In particular, they replaced two damaged superstructures, for which 524 tons of metal frames were supplied. Installation of the first span completed in March.
Car traffic on all lanes of the Crimean Bridge was opened in February, 39 days ahead of schedule. Next, Khusnullin noted that the damaged railway portion of the bridge must be restored by July 2023.
Explosion on the Crimean Bridge
On October 8, 2022, a truck exploded on the automobile part of the Crimean Bridge, causing the fuel tanks of a passing train to burn. As a result, two car bays collapsed, four people died – the driver of the heavy truck that exploded and the passengers of a nearby car.
The FSB and Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the authors, authors and customers of the weakening of the bridge were the special services of Ukraine. According to the Head of State, it was “a terrorist attack aimed at destroying civilian infrastructure of crucial importance to Russia”. In Kyiv, they did not confirm their involvement in the incident. Ukrainian media sources and The New York Times claimed that the Ukrainian secret service was involved in the Crimean Bridge explosion.
The head of the Investigative Committee (CI), Alexander Bastrykin, said that citizens of Russia and foreign countries were involved in the explosion of the Crimean bridge. In February, he said investigators were able to identify 12 people involved in the blast, including Ukrainian, Armenian, Georgian and Russian citizens. Eight of them, according to the head of the commission of inquiry, are in custody.
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