The Ministry of Transport started talking about the Leningrad-Moscow-Crimea highway
Moscow - Simferopol, July 3 (Navigator, Mikhail Stamm) - A high-speed railway (HSR) can be built to Crimea, Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said yesterday. Russian Railways is ready to build it, but they are not sure that the budget will provide money,
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The transport development strategy until 2030, approved in June by the Russian government, includes a project for the construction of a high-speed railway from Moscow to Adler, Sokolov said. “Perhaps we will develop it in the direction of Crimea,” RBC daily quotes the minister.
The construction of the Leningrad-Moscow-Simferopol expressway was discussed by the Ministry of Railways and the Council of Ministers of the USSR back in the late 1980s, a representative of Russian Railways said. Then the “High-Speed Environmentally Friendly Transport” program was approved, and the designers planned to build and run trains along the Leningrad-Moscow-Simferopol highway at a speed of 300-350 km per hour.
HSR in Russia is planned to be developed in three directions from Moscow: to Kazan, Adler and St. Petersburg. The highway to Kazan has already been included in the territorial planning scheme of Russia; this year, Russian Railways are expected to allocate 6 billion rubles from the Russian budget. to begin design, First Vice President of Russian Railways Alexander Misharin told RBC in April. The volume of required investments is about 1 trillion rubles.
The high-speed railway project to Adler will require an investment of 1,5 trillion rubles, said a representative of Russian Railways. According to him, this line can indeed be extended to Crimea.
A source close to Russian Railways explained that Minister Sokolov’s proposal is more of a project than a reality. “We should build a highway to Kazan,” complains a person familiar with the company’s plans.
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