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трилинка in Russian,
trylinka in Polish
That is a type of road
pavement employing hexagonal pre-cast concrete blocks.
They were nicknamed "trylinka"
after its inventor, the Polish
engineer Wladyslaw Trylinski who invented and patented this type
of pavement in 1935. The production of blocks was started in
Brest in the 1930s. The blocks were used to pave roads in Brest
and other towns near Brest. The road Kobrin - Pinsk was paved
with "trylinka". The pavement was strong enough to
withstand numerous tanks and various heavy laden vehicles during
the devastating war from 1941 till 1944. This type appeared to
be the strongest of other types, invented in the 1930s. In the
course of road reconstruction in the recent decade most of the trylinka
pavement was replaced by asphalt. Fortunately, it remained, so
far, in the Brest Fortress, in Pinsk,
Stolin and some other places of
Brest region.
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The concrete of
broken stones made the blocks extremely hard. A block was 15-20 cm thick, it
had 6 sides, 20 cm each. Broken black basalt, brought from
Ukrainian Janowa Dolina , was put into metal casts. Next a layer
of high standard concrete mortar was poured into the cast and a
layer of low standard concrete mortar completed the block.
The heavy blocks were put
with harder surface upwards to pave roads.
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