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Russia · Design error · 4.5 km temporary rail viaduct, about 115 spans of 27 m on pile piers, two swing spans
The crossing was built in roughly 150 days in 1944 to a lightened design reusing German materials, with ice breakwaters deferred to a second stage; only five were finished…
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