In 2023, more than 2 million vehicles passed through the Crimean Bridge, 1.9 million of which were passenger cars. reports RIA Novosti, citing the press service of Uprdor “Taman”.
“In 2023, the traffic density at the transport crossing passing through the Kerch Strait reached 2.021 million vehicles, of which 1.992 million were passenger cars,” the institution said.
Just five years after the establishment of the facility, 24.318 million vehicles passed through the Crimean Bridge.
The Crimean Bridge connected the Crimean Peninsula and the Krasnodar Territory, its length is 19 km, making it the longest bridge in Russia. The automobile part of the building was opened on May 15, 2018, and the movement of passenger cars and buses started the next day. The first trains from the mainland to the peninsula departed at the end of 2019.
On October 8, 2022, an explosion occurred on the Crimean Bridge. A truck was blown up and the train’s fuel tanks caught fire, according to the National Counterterrorism Committee. As a result, the span of two cars partially collapsed.
Formerly Crimean political scientist Denis Barutin acceptedHe said that Ukrainian troops will soon try to hit the Crimean Bridge again.