The bridge, documentary by RT Doc

The Bridge

'Hello, we're on our way over the bridge. We'll be there soon, Sunshine, wait.' In the 2018 film The Bridge, Irina, a pensioner from Taman, calls her sister in Kerch to say she’ll arrive for a visit in 20 minutes. The sisters rarely used to see each other, as they had to take expensive flights or long ferry rides.

On May 16, four years ago, the Crimean bridge opened to cars, connecting Russia’s Krasnodar Region and Crimea across the Kerch Strait. Some 25,000 people worked on building it. The part for road transport was erected in 27 months. This 19-kilometre-long bridge is one of the largest in the country.

RT Documentary followed the ambitious project with Nikolay Valuyev, a world boxing champion and member of the Russian State Duma, who lends a hand in the construction, and Alyona Sviridova, a local Kerch singer, who meets with Crimean residents for whom the bridge is a lifeline.