The Nicholas Chain Bridge (or Nikolaevsky Chain Bridge; uk, Миколаївський ланцюговий міст; russian: Николаевский цепной мост) was a

chain bridge A chain bridge is a historic form of suspension bridge for which chains or eyebars were used instead of wire ropes to carry the bridge deck. A famous example is the Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest. Construction types are, as for other suspens ...

over the

Dnieper } The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukraine and B ...

that existed from 1855 to 1920 in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

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The bridge was designed by British engineer

Charles Blacker Vignoles Charles Blacker Vignoles (31 May 1793 – 17 November 1875) was an influential British railway engineer, and eponym of the Vignoles rail. Early life He was born at Woodbrook, County Wexford, Ireland in May 1793 the son of Capt. Ch ...

. Construction started in 1848 and was completed in 1853. The bridge was the largest at that time in Europe. A silver model of the bridge was presented at

The Great Exhibition The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition (in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held), was an international exhibition which took pl ...

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. In 1920, during the Polish-Soviet War, the bridge was blown up by retreating Polish troops. It was restored based on old drawings by

Evgeny Paton Professor Evgeny Oscarovich Paton (russian: Евгений Оскарович Патон, 1870–1953) was a Ukrainian and Soviet engineer of Ukrainian descent who established the E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute in Kyiv. Paton was a peop ...

and opened again in 1925 under the name

Yevgenia Bosch Yevgenia Bogdanovna; russian: Го́тлибовна) Bosch; russian: Евге́ния Богда́новна Бош; german: Jewgenija Bogdanowna Bosch (née Meisch ; – 5 January 1925) was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary, politician, ...

Bridge. Paton had significantly changed its structure and raised it by several metres, so that the Yevgenia Bosch Bridge may be considered as a new bridge. On 19 September 1941, Yevgenia Bosch Bridge was demolished by retreating Soviet troops and was never restored after the war. In 1965 in place of the former chain bridge a new Kyiv Metro Bridge was built.

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Chain bridge history and old photos on Kiev History Site

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20071222120927/http://pk.kiev.ua/history/2006/07/25/090056.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20040203060952/http://www.k-telegraph.kiev.ua/N72/starygor.htm * http://www.nostalgia2.kiev.ua/history-kiev_008.shtml {{Bridges over the Dnieper in Kyiv Demolished bridges in Ukraine Former road bridges in Ukraine Road bridges in Kyiv Chain bridges Suspension bridges in Ukraine Bridges completed in 1855 Demolished buildings and structures in Kyiv

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