OREANDA-NEWS. August 12, 2011. The first stage of highway over the Dnieper River in Zaporizhia will be put into operation in the first quarter of 2013. This was stated the Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov at a working trip to Zaporizhia region.

He informed that the construction crossing of bridge was started in 2004, and its scheduled completion in 2016.

Mykola Azarov set the task to accelerate the work on the object.

"Start of construction the bridge was in 2004 and final its completion planned in 2016. I am convinced that such objects, with all their complexities, cannot build within 12 years. I think that we are now significantly speed up construction, and in the first quarter of 2013 the first place, the Rent", - the Head of Government noted.