OREANDA-NEWS. Specialists from the Rostov company Mostootryad-10, a branch of Mostotrest, have completed the main work on the construction of the new Voroshilovsky Bridge in Rostov-on-Don ahead of schedule. The bridge was open to traffic four months before the date specified in the contract.

The new three-lane bridge upstream across the Don is 623 m in length and is constructed in the immediate vicinity of the decommissioned Voroshilovsky Bridge, which was closed in the beginning of 2014 due to the deformation of the central superstructure.

Erecting the new bridge was the first stage of the reconstruction of the bridge across the Don that links to Voroshilovsky Prospect. Mostootryad-10 specialists are currently working on the second and third stages of the project, which entails the demolition of the existing two-lane bridge and construction of a new one in its place, which will become a single unit with the backup bridge that has already been constructed. The six-lane bridge is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2017.

A contraflow traffic system has been set up on the new bridge. In the morning, from 00:00 to 12:00, it is open to traffic moving toward Rostov-on-Don. The rest of the time, it is open to traffic moving away from Rostov-on-Don. While the second and third stages are in progress, traffic will only be able to move along two out of the three lanes of the new bridge. One lane will be used for completing work on the reconstruction of the old bridge.

The construction of the bridge is carried out under strict environmental control in order to ensure safe use of the natural environment and to prevent negative effects on the environment. In order to increase the speed of construction, the project will use the method of moving the combined length of the bridge span into the correct place by lifting it with floating jacks. It is also planned to use crushing and screening plant to convert the demolished reinforced concrete bridge structures into ballast for re-use.

When the new bridge comes into use it will increase more than in two times the capacity of the road linking the right-bank area of the city with the left-bank area, where a stadium is to be built for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The new bridge will also improve communications between Rostov-on-Don and its satellite towns Bataysk and Azov and other residential areas in Rostov Region.

This project is being implemented as part of the preparations for holding 2018 FIFA World Cup matches in Rostov-on-Don, on the basis of the city’s long-term strategic programme ‘Operation and development of the Rostov-on-Don road and street network in the period 2011–2015’ and of ‘South Russia’s Roads’, the programme to modernise and develop the road network of the Southern Federal District until 2025.

Mostotrest is a major, diversified infrastructure construction company, with established presence in all core and related market segments, and a participant in Russia’s first public-private partnership projects. According to EMBS Group, an independent industry consultancy, in 2014 Mostotrest held a 13.4% share of the total Russian transport infrastructure construction market.

Mostotrest’s core competences include construction and reconstruction of bridges, roads and other transport infrastructure facilities; provision of road maintenance, repair and operating services. In 2012, Mostotrest also entered a new segment: management of road concessions.

The company was established in 1930 as a developer of complex and oversized bridges.

Mostotrest is currently participating in implementation of a number of complex transport infrastructure development projects, such as construction of the Section 4 (km 208 – km 258) and Section 6 (km 334 – km 543) of the M-11 “Moscow – St Petersburg” Toll Highway, construction and reconstruction of the M-4 “Don”, M-9 “Baltic” and M-11 “Narva” highways, construction of Businovskaya Interchange in Moscow, Bor Bridge in Nizhny Novgorod and Voroshilovsky Bridge in Rostov-on-Don.