OREANDA-NEWS. August 03, 2012. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov is pleased with pace of building bridges across the Dnieper River in Zaporizhzhia. He said that during a working trip to Zaporizhzhia.

PM familiarized with the process of construction of bridges across the Dnieper River: with the construction of pylon on the building № 10 (cable-stayed bridge over the Dnieper River), construction works on the building № 6 (overpass) and construction of traffic circle junction under it.

"I am pleased to note that those measures we have taken, give the result. A year ago we decided to pass this bridge from town to the Ukrautodor - as main contractor and the customer execution of works, provided these activities the necessary funding. We have seen that the work is being done intensively and those plans that we set - by the end of the year open transport traffic by bridge - are real," said Mykola Azarov.

He also added the Government would provide uninterrupted construction financing for this too difficult technological complex.

"This bridge - a unique engineering site. And it is extremely important that we have built qualitatively and in a timely manner," said Prime Minister.

The State Agency of Roads head Volodymyr Demishkan mentioned that at the end of November this year would be complete construction works on overpass and interchange would be built under the overpass, and the first stage of the bridge to be commissioned by the end of 2012.

He said the construction uses the latest technologies that can significantly reduce the time of construction of the bridge.

He added the majority of metals was being used in the construction by domestic production.

"We are buying only 600 tons of ultrastrong metal constructions for anchor parts of the bridge in Finland. Unfortunately, in Ukraine these constructions are not yet being produced. From the 9.5 thousand tons - 600 tons are not large amounts," Volodymyr Demishkan underlined.