Russia and China are cooperating to build a railroad bridge across the Amur River, which forms part of the border between the two countries. From the above picture we can see that half of the bridge has been completed. This is the Chinese half. The Russians are going to start on their half someday soon, we hope.
I came across the picture on
al fin next level, and I wondered if it would show up on a satellite image. To that end, it was first necessary to figure out just where the bridge is. Yes, it is going over the Amur River, but the Amur River is very long (2,700 miles
), and even the part that forms the border between China and Russia is hundreds of miles long.
A little digging reveals that the bridge is near
Nizhneleninskoye. Now we know.
Ice! Somehow I think that would require making the bridge foundations much stronger than would be required for a bridge over a river that doesn't freeze, like one in the tropics. But maybe the day-in, day-out strain of the flowing water would outweigh the stress imposed by a few months of ice.
The whole point of this operation is to carry
iron ore from the Kimkan mine near
Birobidzhan in Russia to steel mills somewhere in China.
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