For over a decade, the New Yalu River Bridge linking China and North Korea was known as the “bridge to nowhere” on account of sitting unopened and unused.

But following that bridge’s long-delayed grand opening last month, another new span on the other side of the DPRK border arguably has a better claim to the ignominious nickname — this time connecting to the Russian Far East.

In early September, after several months of delays, Russia and North Korea openedthe first road bridge to ever connect the two countries. The bridge was named in honor of Yakov Novichenko, a Soviet