In the village of Yakovlevka, Primorsky Territory, a road bridge partially collapsed. One of the supports of the structure broke. Primorskaya Gazeta about this . told The acting head of the Yakovlevka district administration, Alexander Gorbunov,

No one was injured due to the bridge collapse. According to him, travel across the bridge is now closed, “there have been no disruptions to the life of the village due to the collapse of the bridge.” Gorbunov said that no decision has yet been made on restoring the bridge or building a new one. He noted that the cause of the collapse was likely due to the dilapidation of the structure.

“Most likely, there is not even design documentation for this bridge. It was built in the 1960s by collective or state farms with violations of requirements,” Gorbunov said.

Press secretary of the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Primorsky Territory, Mikhail Isametov, clarified in an interview with TASS that we are talking about a bridge over which agricultural equipment could get to the fields. However, he assured that there are other alternative roads in the village, so transport links are not disrupted.

The newspaper notes that in the region there are more than 1.6 thousand bridges of regional significance only. The Governor of the Primorsky Territory, Vladimir Miklushevsky, ordered to check the condition of all bridges in the region, and according to the results of the inspection, 139 structures were recognized as unsafe.

At the end of April, the bridge on the Yakovlevka-Kirovka highway was also damaged after a timber truck passed through. fell At the end of February , two spans of the bridge on the Artem-Nakhodka highway . A criminal case was opened for negligence. According to investigators, the reason for this was, among other things, poor quality of construction and installation work during the construction of the bridge, exceeding the load on the beams and the maximum service life. At the end of April, a new bridge was opened to replace the collapsed one.

The fourth bridge in three months collapsed in the Primorsky Territory