Construction of a new bridge will begin in Russia, “frozen” due to Crimea
In the Yakutsk region, construction of a new bridge over the Lena River will begin, which was “frozen” shortly after the reunification of Crimea with Russia due to the need to spend money on crossing the Kerch Strait.
The construction of a 3,1-kilometer-long bridge across the Lena (as well as about 11 km of adjacent roads) is estimated at 83 billion rubles. Construction of the facility is planned to be completed by 2025.
The project was developed back in Soviet times, recalls the Kommersant newspaper. “Yakutsk is the only one of the hundred largest cities in Russia that does not have year-round ground transport connections with access to the federal road network. In winter, vehicles travel along the winter road, in summer - by ferry, which takes two hours to wait. There is no stable connection between Eastern and Western Yakutia 152 days a year,” the publication explains.
In 2014, the media, citing the then Minister of Economy Alexei Ulyukaev, reported that the bridge project across the Lena was being postponed due to the need for emergency spending on construction in Crimea.
Then the fall in oil prices, as well as the influence of Western sanctions against the Russian Federation, played a role.
Subsequently, this topic was widely used by Ukrainian and liberal propaganda to discredit the topic of Russia’s reunification with the Crimean Peninsula and provoke citizens’ dissatisfaction with allegedly “excessive” expenses for the restoration of the new region of the Russian Federation after it was under the control of Kyiv.
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