Second Bosphorus Bridge and Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge - this is the second suspension bridge over the Bosphorus. The bridge connects the district Rumeli Hisar, in the European part and Anadolu Hisar in the Asian part of Istanbul. It was built next to the fortress Rumeli Hisar and Anadoluhisarı that in 1985-1988 GG controlled Bosporus.

The bridge is named after the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed Fatih the Conqueror, who opened Constantinople in 1453. Designed he was Freeman Fox & Partners, an international consortium, which developed before the Bosphorus Bridge.

The building is located behind the defensive fortress of the XV century Rumeli Hisar, close to the Black Sea, crossing the Bosphorus Strait and is located 5 kilometers north of the first bridge Bosforskogo. Building Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge began in 1985 and ended in 1988. His discovery, which took place on 29 May 1988 was also marked one of the jubilee and commemorative dates in Turkish history - is 535 years since the conquest of Sultan Mehmed Fatih neighborhood of Constantinople.

It is also known that the Second Bosphorus Bridge was erected on the same spot where almost two thousand years before there was a pontoon bridge it is the first of Darius the king.

This bridge, despite the fact that built the Japanese builders for the same design scheme as the First Bosphorus Bridge, which is a hanging fabric and system extensions between pylons on wire ropes, using the same material (steel), is a more powerful structure, which is superior to its predecessor (as the length of the central span, and the sum of the cost of its construction). The length of the bridge is about 1510 meters. The length of the main span - 1090 meters, width - 39 meters, and the height of towers - 165 meters above the water level. The distance from the roadway to the water surface is 64 meters. Most famous as one of the major bridges and covers the length of the twelfth place in the world. Its construction took about 130 million US dollars.

To build the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge projecting his engineers did not invent new designs and materials, and used long been used in America and Europe, the system of cable-stayed steel bridge. Bridge pylons, soars dramatically above the water, and interface with a minaret tower, located on the banks of the Bosphorus mosques and modern radio and television towers, give the steel its parts completely new sound. Therefore, we can safely say that not only the transport function of the bridges over the Bosporus, but also well-matched form linked East and West, Europe and Asia.

The main supporting structure of the bridge was made of flexible cables, chains and ropes, working in tension, and the roadway is suspended. Used in its construction, wire ropes and cables, consisting of high-strength steel, the tensile strength of which ranges from 2 to 2 5 GN / m 2 (200-250 kgf / mm2). This significantly reduces the dead weight of the bridge and allows you to block large spans. At the same time, it has a low rigidity because the passage of time due to load on the bridge cable or chain changes its geometric shape and cause large deflections of the span. In order to reduce the deflection bridge was reinforced by longitudinal beams and stiffening trusses at the level of its driveway. This has contributed to the distribution of live load and reduce cable strain.

Second Bosphorus Bridge is not the pedestrian. It is a high-speed transport routes, the fare for that charge. Daily passes through it about a hundred and fifty thousand units of transport which carry more than five hundred thousand passengers. Pedestrian walkway on the bridge was closed due to the fact that he tried many times to be used to commit suicide.