It seems the head of Yakutia will have to eat his tie: he promised to do so if the bridge across the Lena River is not opened by 2025.
A grandiose project that the authorities Yakutia The project, which was promised to be implemented back in 2006, only got off the ground three weeks ago: on October 17, the first pile was driven in a ceremonial ceremony.
And already today the regional Rostekhnadzor сообщил There are at least eight violations reported during the bridge's construction. Among the most significant are the lack of incoming inspection of construction materials and inadequate site security.
This weekend at the construction site I visited one of the local residents. According to him, there is only one excavator and an old drilling machine, brought from Germany, working here. 160 million rublesAt the same time, the workers stated that they had already buried 10 piles.
The cost of the bridge across the Lena is estimated at 130 billion rubles. Due to his absence Yakutsk Twice a year (in spring and autumn) it remains cut off from the rest of Russia, and the cost of ferry crossings skyrockets. This autumn, the price of transporting a passenger car have risen from 1100 to 10 rubles, but even despite this, multi-kilometer queues formed at the crossings (including trucks with the bodies of local residents who died in the war with Ukraine).
November 9 on local Telegram channels scattered A video shows a young mother walking from the maternity hospital with her baby across the ice from one bank to the other: an inflatable taxi boat refused to take them because there were too few passengers, and the driver didn't want to travel half-empty.
«We stood on the bank for a long time waiting for other passengers, but none arrived. Worried about the child getting cold and in a hurry, we decided to cross the river on foot.“,” the young mother told reporters.
At the perinatal center her act is already condemned: the child could have gotten hypothermia.
Yakutia, which has been waiting 18 years for a bridge, played an active role in the construction of the Crimean Bridge, a more expensive and complex project. In 2019, the head of the republic Aisen Nicolaeв assuredThat the bridge across the Lena River would be completed in 2025. He promised a journalist he'd eat his tie if it didn't happen.