Answer the following questions

1. What span length is a record for single tower cable-stayed structures in Russia?

2. What technological advance is associated with the Surgut Bridge construction?

3. Why is the road bridge over the Irtysh River a unique structure in the city of Khanty-Mansyisk?

4. How does the new cable-stayed road bridge in St Petersburg differ from the rest bridges over the Neva River?

5. Why does the Zhivopisny Bridge prove to be an engineering achievement and a tourist attraction simultaneously?

6. Which of the two spans (the cable-stayed bridge in Vladivostok or the Akashi Kaikyo suspension structure in Japan) is longer?

7. Why has the Baikal-Amur Trunk Line greatly influenced tunnel engineering?

8. Why are the tunnel builders so proud of the Northern Muja Tunnel?

9. What challengers did they face while tunneling?

10. What newly developed construction methods did they use?

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