Kömürhan Bridge Kömürhan Köprüsü | |
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Coordinates | 38°26′26″N 38°49′06″E / 38.44068°N 38.81847°E |
Carries | D.300 |
Crosses | Euphrates |
Official name | Kömürhan Köprüsü |
Other name(s) | İsmet Paşa Köprüsü |
History | |
Constructed by | STFA Group |
Construction start | 23 February 1983 |
Opened | 8 April 1986 |
Closed | 1 January 2021 |
Replaces | Old Kömürhan Bridge |
Replaced by | New Kömürhan Bridge |
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The Kömürhan Bridge, or with its other name, İsmet Paşa Bridge, is a box-girder bridge [1] that carries the Elazığ- Malatya highway D.300 over the Euphrates River in eastern Turkey. [2] It was constructed using the balanced cantilever technique. [1] [3]
The bridge was constructed to replace a 100 m long concrete [4] arch bridge built by the Swedish company Nydqvist & Holm AB, costs 110 million Turkish lira as the money of that time, and opened on 5 October 1932, which was flooded with the completion of the Karakaya Dam. The new bridge was built by the STFA Group between 23 February 1983 and 8 April 1986. [3] [5]
Kömürhan Bridge is between Malatya Province and Elazığ Province. The tender, that is for building a new bridge that is 600 m length at same place, completed in 2013. [6]
It features in the " 50 works in 50 years" list of significant building projects in Turkey published by the Chamber of Civil Engineers in Turkey. [7]