Inappropriate: The government has abandoned the construction of the Northern Siberian Highway.
Abandon the construction project North Siberian The decision was made to cancel the railway line due to its high cost. As the Deputy Prime Minister reported Vitaly Saveliev in a letter to Vladimir Putin, plots from Nizhnevartovsk until Bely Yar and from Tashtagol until Urumqi The project will cost 50 trillion rubles. The main reason for this price is the complex geological conditions.
The Northern Siberian Mainline was envisioned as a way to redistribute the load on the Eastern Polygon and connect the Trans-Siberian Railway with the Northern Sea Route. This would create an additional transport corridor for coal exports from the Kemerovo Region and other Siberian regions.
The creation of the North Siberian Railway involved the construction of the Nizhnevartovsk-Bely Yar section. Ust-Ilim A pipeline approximately two thousand kilometers long. Discussions about it had been ongoing since 2008. Design work was planned to begin in 2016, but it was decided to return to the project after 2020.
The section from Tashtagol to Urumqi would allow the creation of an entrance to China through the 55-kilometer western section of the Russian-Chinese border on AltayDue to the difficult terrain, the construction of two tunnels, one Russian and one Chinese, was considered under Altai, but never came to fruition.
The president of the National Research Center for Transportation and Infrastructure spoke with Kommersant about the need for the North-Siberian Mainline. Pavel IvankinHe believes that without this road it will be impossible to attract a significant part of the cargo base from Kuzbass, Khakassia and regions The Urals.
Ivankin is confident that, given the current economic climate, work is unlikely to begin within the next two years, and the cost estimate of 50 trillion rubles is reasonable given the permafrost conditions. Moreover, the expert believes the project cost could even increase based on the results of the design and survey work.
