Patona Bridge
Long steel road bridge over a broad river, pioneering all-welded construction from the nineteen-fifties.
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This guide to Patona Bridge in Kyiv follows Yevhen Paton, a bridge engineer turned welding pioneer who, near the age of eighty, staked his name on building a river crossing with no rivets at all. It touches the collapses abroad that made welded bridges look reckless, and the war years that left only piers standing in the Dnipro. Best heard from the footway, looking down at the water.
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