| Bridge Name: | Kömürhan Bridge |
| Native Name: | Kömürhan Köprüsü |
| Native Name Lang: | tr |
| Official Name: | Kömürhan Köprüsü |
| Other Name: | İsmet Paşa Köprüsü |
| Crosses: | Euphrates |
| Builder: | STFA Group |
| Begin: | 23 February 1983 |
| Open: | 8 April 1986 |
| Closed: | 1 January 2021 |
| Replaces: | Old Kömürhan Bridge |
| Replaced By: | New Kömürhan Bridge |
| Coordinates: | 38.4407°N 38.8185°W |
The Kömürhan Bridge, also known as the İsmet Paşa Bridge, is a box-girder bridge[1] that carries the Elazığ-Malatya highway over the Euphrates River in eastern Turkey.[2] It was constructed using the balanced cantilever technique.[1] [3]
The bridge was constructed to replace a 100 m long concrete[4] arch bridge built by the Swedish company Nydqvist & Holm AB, costs 110 million Turkish lira as the money of that time, and opened on 5 October 1932, which was flooded with the completion of the Karakaya Dam. The new bridge was built by the STFA Group between 23 February 1983 and 8 April 1986.[3] [5]
Kömürhan Bridge is between Malatya Province and Elazığ Province. The tender, that is for building a new bridge that is 600 m length at same place, completed in 2013.[6]
It features in the "50 works in 50 years" list of significant building projects in Turkey published by the Chamber of Civil Engineers in Turkey.[7]