KIEV. May 16. UNN. Kerch bridge from Russia to occupied Crimea, opened to vehicular traffic today, is not displayed on Google Maps. This was indicated by some users of social networks, reports UNN.
So, from Taman, the first column of cars moved at exactly 04:30 am Kyiv time. Among the first members of the movement were local residents, the builders of the Crimean bridge, the veterans and the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. Cars decorated with balloons and flags of Russia.
Road part of the bridge connecting the annexed Crimean Peninsula to other regions of Russia, planned to open in December of this year, but was completed six months ahead of the deadline.
One user noted that “Yandex. Cards” structure have already appeared.
In Yandex, the Crimean bridge is already drawn, Google is still late pic.twitter.com/sBMkGUeIs3
– Kirill (@korzhavin) may 16, 2018
Some of the users also drew attention to the fact that the service is not making the route across the bridge.
Google doesn’t want to build a route from Rostov-on-don to Sevastopol via the new Crimean bridge https://t.co/Z9H9DBVoYl
– Natalia (@ Nata4468) may 15, 2018.
And some even called “наказать2 Russian Google for “sabotage of the Crimean bridge.”
Isn’t it time to punish the Russian # Google ???????? #Google Sabotages the obviousness of the Russian Crimean Bridge # Kristinast pic.twitter.com/y8eHsqKpvP
– Dmitry Strekashev (@ golden959) may 16, 2018
As reported UNN, on may 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the road part of the Crimean bridge. The construction of the railway part of the transport passage continues, is scheduled to open in 2019. Crimean bridge spanned the Kerch Peninsula (Crimea) from the Taman Peninsula (Krasnodar region) and “necessity” in its construction came after the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014.
Road part of the Crimean bridge opened to traffic on may 16.