Ruse Municipality ( Bulgarian : Община Русе ) is a municipality ( obshtina ) in Ruse Province , Central-North Bulgaria , located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain . It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Ruse which is also a capital of the province.
7-572: The municipality embraces a territory of 469.17 km (181.15 sq mi) with a population of 175,210 inhabitants, as of December 2009. Apart from the cultural heritage of the main city, the area is best known with the Danube Bridge , the first bridge over the Danube in Bulgaria. The main roads E85 , E70 and II-21 crosses the municipality, connecting the province centre of Ruse with
14-512: Is mobile and can be lifted for oversized boats passage. The maintenance of the mobile part is Romania's responsibility and is periodically checked. The bridge was constructed in two and a half years with the aid of the Soviet Union . The Soviets named it the "Friendship Bridge", but, since the fall of the communist regimes in both countries, the bridge got the more functional name of "Danube Bridge". Border control stations are present on
21-638: The Danube River connecting the Bulgarian bank to the south with the Romanian bank to the north and the cities of Ruse and Giurgiu respectively. It is one of only two bridges connecting Romania and Bulgaria, the other one being the New Europe Bridge between the cities of Vidin and Calafat . Opened on 20 June 1954 and designed by Soviet engineers V. Andreev and N. Rudomazin,
28-412: The bridge is 2,223.52 m (7,295.0 ft) long and was, at the time, the only bridge over the Danube shared by Bulgaria and Romania, with other traffic being served by ferries and land routes. Decorations were designed by Bulgarian architect Georgi Ovcharov . The bridge has two decks; a two lane motorway and a railway. Sidewalks for pedestrians are also included. The central part of the bridge (85 m)
35-667: The bridge, due to its serving as a border crossing between the two countries. Since January 2007 there is no more customs control and the passport/identity card control is done "on one desk" either by the Bulgarian or the Romanian border police, being an "internal border" within the European Union . Border control will be completely removed when Bulgaria and Romania join the Schengen Agreement . On 3 September 2011
42-423: The cities of Veliko Tarnovo , Pleven , Razgrad and Silistra . Ruse Municipality includes the following 14 places (towns are shown in bold): The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Ruse Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Novo Selo and the numbers in the table reflect this unification. According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011,
49-469: The religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: Danube Bridge The Danube Bridge (also known as the Friendship Bridge ; Bulgarian : Мост на дружбата , Most na druzhbata or, more commonly, Дунав мост , Dunav most ; Romanian : Podul Prieteniei or Podul de la Giurgiu ) is a steel truss bridge over
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