| Bridge Name: | Pivnichnyi Bridge |
| Native Name: | Північний міст |
| Native Name Lang: | uk |
| Official Name: | Pivnichnyi Bridge |
| Other Name: | Northern Bridge Moskovskyi Bridge Moscow Bridge |
| Carries: | Automobiles |
| Crosses: | Dnieper River |
| Locale: | Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Owner: | Ukraine |
| Designer: | Mikhail Krasnoshtein Anatoliy Dobrovolskyi |
| Engineering: | Heorhiy Fuks |
| Length: | 816 m |
| Width: | 31.4 m |
| Height: | 119 m |
| Mainspan: | 300 m |
| Followed: | Rybalskyi Railroad Bridge |
| Coordinates: | 50.4906°N 30.5358°W |
The Pivnichnyi Bridge (Ukrainian: Північний міст) or Northern Bridge is a structure in Kyiv, Ukraine, built in 1976. It is a cable-stayed bridge, designed by the architect Mikhail Krasnoshtein (later, Mikhail Asianov) and engineer G. B. Fux. The beam of the main span is held by a cluster of steel ropes which are fixed to a 1190NaN0 tall A-pylon.[1]
It is notable that as a result of Soviet-era state-sponsored anti-semitism, a non-Jewish architect from Kharkiv (A. V. Dobrovolsky) was brought in to take credit for the bridge's architecture just prior to the official opening of the bridge, and this remains the official record. This record forgery was approved by A. F. Bersheda, the Director of the Kyiv architecture bureau (KievSoyuzDorProekt) at the time.
Until February 2018 the bridge was named Moskovskyi Bridge (Ukrainian: Московський міст) or Moscow Bridge.[2] As part of Ukraine's current decommunization process the bridge was nominated to be renamed for almost a year prior to its new name.[3]
The bridge is actually a composition of two main bridges: a 8160NaN0 long and 31.4m (103feet) wide across the Dnipro, a 7320NaN0 long, 29.1m (95.5feet) wide across the Desenka (Desna distributary) and includes a road interchange at Stepana Bandery prospect and Volodymyra Ivasiuka prospect to the north and Naberezhno-Rybalska road to the south.
The major feature of the bridge its pylon 119m (390feet) in height. It is located on the Trukhaniv Island and providing support for the main span across Dnipro.
It is a key structure on the northern end of the Kyiv Smaller Beltway, connecting Petrivka to the densely populated north-eastern residential neighborhoods of Troieshchyna and Voskresenka. From the moment of its construction the bridge was built as a high-speed motorway, which it remains to this day.