Bøkfjord Bridge () is a road bridge which crosses the

Paatsjoki The Paatsjoki River (, , , , , , ''Paz or Patsoyoki'') is a river that flows through Finland, Norway, and Russia. Since 1826, the river has marked parts of the Norway–Russia border, except from 1920 to 1944 when it was along the Finland–N ...

river at its mouth into Bøkfjord, in

Sør-Varanger Municipality Sør-Varanger (; ; ) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Finnmark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kirkenes. Other settlements in the municipality include the vill ...

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county, Norway. Binary-1856699-1181883

The main bridge was built in parts in

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, Germany, assembled in

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, Germany and transported by barge to the place. It was put into place on 20 May 2017. It was opened for traffic on 28 September 2017, inaugurated by the minister of transport

Ketil Solvik-Olsen Ketil Solvik-Olsen (born 14 February 1972) is a Norway, Norwegian politician of the Progress Party (Norway), Progress Party. He served as Minister of Transport and Communications in the Norwegian government from 2013 to 2018, and was a member of t ...

(Norway) and vice minister of transport Sergey Aristov (Russia), who also marked the opening of other new roads on the cross-border E105 between

Kirkenes (Norwegian language, Norwegian; ), (Northern Sami language, Northern Sami; , or is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, in the far northeastern part of Norway. The town lies on a peninsu ...

and Zapolyarny. It replaced the old, low and narrow Elvenes Bridge.Monterte Sør-Varangers nye landemerke lørdag ettermiddag
(in Norwegian)

References

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Eksterne lenker

E105 Hesseng–Storskog, project site (in Norwegian)
Road bridges in Finnmark Sør-Varanger