Borskiy Bridge — a railway bridge with additional automobile traffic across the Volga, on the road out of Nizhny Novgorod toward city of Bor. One of the key strategic facilities of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
History
The present-day Borskiy Bridge is the successor to a railway bridge across the Volga built in 1934 for the Gorky–Kirov mainline. In 1965 the bridge was rebuilt as a two-tier structure. The initial road-deck capacity was 870 vehicles per day, or one vehicle every 100 seconds, which made it possible to establish regular motor transport links between the regional capital and the entire left bank of the Volga.
Interesting Facts
In the autumn of 1942, the Abwehr devised a sabotage operation codenamed "Volzhsky Val" ("Volga Rampart"). Its concept involved the simultaneous disruption of the railway communications connecting the western regions of the USSR with the Urals and Central Asia. To this end, large groups of saboteurs were to be dropped into the Yaroslavl, Gorky, Kuibyshev, and Saratov Regions with orders to blow up four railway bridges across the Volga.
The details of this secret operation remain classified to this day. What is known is that in the territory of the Borsky District of Gorky Region, the local destroyer battalion and NKVD personnel did engage in combat with a large group of German paratroopers attempting to reach the bridge across the Volga.
(from M. V. Zefirov's book "Swastika over the Volga")