The Bor Bridge is a railway bridge with additional road traffic across the Volga River, at the exit from Nizhny Novgorod toward the town of Bor. It is one of the main strategic facilities of Nizhny Novgorod Region.
Background
The modern Bor Bridge is the successor to the railway bridge across the Volga built in 1934 for the Gorky–Kirov line. Photographs from 1933 record the construction of the bridge even before its official opening — the pictures show the crossing in the area of the Meschera Microdistrict of Nizhny Novgorod.[1] In 1965 the bridge was rebuilt as a double-deck structure. The capacity of the roadway was initially 870 vehicles per day, or one car every 100 seconds, which made it possible to begin regular road transport service between the regional center and the entire left bank.
Interesting Facts
In the autumn of 1942, the Abwehr developed a sabotage operation called "Volga Rampart." Its aim was to simultaneously knock out the railway links connecting the western regions of the USSR with the Urals and Central Asia. To do this, large groups of saboteurs were to be dropped into the Yaroslavl, Gorky, Kuibyshev, and Saratov Regions, with the task of blowing up four railway bridges across the Volga.
The details of this secret operation remain a mystery to this day. All that is known is that in the territory of Borsky District of Gorky Region, a local destroyer battalion and NKVD personnel did indeed fight a large group of German paratroopers who were trying to break through to the bridge across the Volga.
(from M.V. Zefirov's book "The Swastika over the Volga")
See Also
Sources
- pro-nn.org — Photographs from 1933 show the construction of the Bor Bridge even before its official opening in 1934; the images show a crossing in the area of the Meschera microdistrict (archive)