Millennium Bridge in Kazan

Millennium Bridge holds the title of the highest bridge in Kazan and forms part of the existing highway – the Small Kazan Ring. The unremarkable letter “M”, from which thin “strings” of supporting cables diverge, transforms at nightfall, as if by magic. Bright illumination together with the lights of lanterns makes the Millennium a colorful object of night Kazan. Routes of sightseeing tours always touch this part of the city, so that tourists can enjoy the majestic construction of a kilometer and a half long.

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Of course, the design of the Millennium Bridge is not comparable in beauty with the famous bridges of the world, but this does not prevent Kazan residents to speak with awe and pride about one of the city’s main attractions. The first thing they advise is to wait until dusk to enjoy the straight lines of the bridge in the light of night lights and, walking along the pedestrian sidewalk, to look at Kazan from a different perspective. Few tourists realize what makes the Millennium so remarkable, but the evening promenade fundamentally changes the first impression of the bridge crossing the left tributary of the Volga – the Kazanka River.

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Video: Millennium Bridge in Kazan

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About Millennium in numbers

In the context of the city’s landmarks, the scale of the Millennium Bridge is impressive:

  • The exact length of the structure is 1,524 meters, of which 689 meters are road crossings and the rest are girder and cable-stayed sections;
  • together with the approaches, the length of the Millennium reaches three kilometers;
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  • The M-shaped pylon, the most notable part of the bridge, rises more than 45 meters above the highways and weighs about 600 tons;
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  • The Millennium includes six automobile lanes (there are three for each half of the letter “M”);
  • About 15,000 cars pass over the bridge every day.

It is not without reason that romantics call the majestic Millennium the heart of Kazan. It is impossible to feel the original atmosphere of the capital of Tatarstan without seeing the main hydraulic structure of the city!

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