{{Short description|Former bridge in Ukraine}} {{More citations needed|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox Bridge |bridge_name =Nicholas Chain Bridge |native_name =<small>{{native name|uk|Миколаївський ланцюговий міст}}</small> |image =Nicholas Chain Bridge LOC 03819.jpg |caption = |official_name = |carries = |crosses =Dnieper |locale =Kyiv, Ukraine |maint = |id = |design =Suspension bridge |mainspan ={{convert|776|m|0}} |length = |width = |height = |load = |clearance = |below = |traffic = |begin =1848 |complete =1853 |open = |closed =1920 <small>(destroyed)</small> |map_cue = |map_image = |map_text = |map_width = |coordinates = {{coord|50|26|32|N|30|33|52.30|E|display=inline,title}} }}
The '''Nicholas Chain Bridge''' or '''Mykolaivskyi Chain Bridge''' ({{langx|uk|Миколаївський ланцюговий міст|Mykolaivskyi lantsiuhovyi mist}}, {{IPA|uk|mɪkoˈlɑjiu̯sʲkɪj lɐnʲtsʲʊˈɦɔwɪj ˈmist|IPA}}; {{langx|ru|Николаевский цепной мост|Nikolayevskiy zepnoy most}}) was a chain bridge over the Dnieper that existed from 1855 to 1920 in Kyiv.
==History== [[File:1879 План Києва.jpg|thumb|left|An 1879 map of Kyiv, showing the railway bridge and the Nicholas Bridge, then the only permanent structures across the Dnieper]] The British engineer Charles Blacker Vignoles directed the bridge's construction, and Fox, Henderson and Company supplied the ironwork. In 1851 a silver model of the bridge was presented at The Great Exhibition in London.{{sfn|Rolt|1970|p=157}} Building started in 1848 and was completed in 1853. The {{convert|776|m|ft|adj=mid|-long}} bridge was the largest at that time in Europe.
In 1920, during the Polish-Soviet War, retreating Polish troops blew up the bridge. It was restored based on old drawings by Evgeny Paton, and opened again in 1925 under the name Yevgenia Bosch Bridge. Paton 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, retreating Soviet troops demolished the Yevgenia Bosch Bridge. It was not restored after the war. In 1965 in place of the former chain bridge a new Kyiv Metro Bridge was built.
==See also== * Bridges in Kyiv
==References== {{reflist}}
==Bibliography== *{{cite book |last=Rolt |first=LTC |author-link=L. T. C. Rolt |year=1970 |title=Victorian Engineering |place=London |publisher=Allen Lane |sbn=7139-0104-7}}
==External links== {{commons category-inline|Nicholas Chain Bridge}} * {{cite web |url= http://oldkyiv.org.ua/data/chainbridge.php?lang=en |title=chainbridge over the River Dnieper |website=Kiev History Site | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928011458/http://oldkyiv.org.ua/data/chainbridge.php?lang=en |archive-date=2011-09-28}} * {{cite web |url= http://www.valehospice.org/kiev/OLD_KIEV/26.jpg |title= Цветное изображение моста |language= uk |access-date= 2020-04-17 |archive-date= 2011-07-28 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110728152333/http://www.valehospice.org/kiev/OLD_KIEV/26.jpg |url-status= dead }} * {{cite web |url= http://pk.kiev.ua/history/2006/07/25/090056.html |title=Мосты для большого города |website=Газета по-киевски |language=uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222120927/http://pk.kiev.ua/history/2006/07/25/090056.html |archive-date=2007-12-22}} * {{cite web |url= http://www.k-telegraph.kiev.ua/N72/starygor.htm |title=Мосты длиною в сотни лет |website=Киевский телеграф |language=uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040203060952/http://www.k-telegraph.kiev.ua/N72/starygor.htm |archive-date=2004-02-03}}
{{Bridges over the Dnieper in Kyiv}}
Category:Bridges completed in 1855 Category:Buildings and structures demolished in 1920 Category:Chain bridges Category:Demolished bridges in Ukraine Category:Demolished buildings and structures in Kyiv Category:Former road bridges in Ukraine Category:Road bridges in Kyiv Category:Suspension bridges in Ukraine