Former railway bridge over the Dniester River in Bender (Romanian name Tighina), now in Moldova-Transnistria at the end of WWI in 1919.

M Jpeg / 2625 × 1949 / 2 Mo
XL Tiff / 3938 × 2923 / 22 Mo

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Sold By: Gaston Robert SKU: 775639662001 Categories: Archives, War, B&W Tags: 1914-1918, AFO, architecture, Armée Française d'Orient, Balkan Peninsula, Bender, Bendery, Bessarabia, black and white, borders, conflict, deflagration, destruction, Dniester, Eiffel, engineering, Europe, French Army of the East, Great War, industrial, metallic, moldova, mud, old, railways, rivers, Romania, sky, snow, Tighina, transnistria, transport, triple alliance, World War I, WWI

Description

The bridge was destroyed by the French army (some say the Romanian army) in 1919 in order to prevent the entry of the then Romanian territory to the Bolsheviks. The railway line from Chisinau to Odessa crossed the Dniestr at this strategic location.

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