Russian President Vladimir Putin started traffic on the section of the M-12 highway connecting Moscow and Arzamas with an official ceremony in the Nizhny Novgorod region. This has been reported TASS.
“I allow it! Let’s go, ”Putin said in response to a request to give the order to start the movement.
During the opening of the runway, the president applauded on stage with the builders. Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, Minister of Transport Vitaly Savelyev, Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin attended the ceremony.
The M-12 “Vostok” section from Moscow to Arzamas is 415 km of the highway of the first technical category. The new part of the route connected four regions (in addition to Moscow, the Moscow, Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod regions).
September 9, City Day in Moscow, Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin will open Several new transport projects in Moscow.
In particular, as reported in the Kremlin, the movement of passenger trains along the MCD-4, the Bagration Boulevard (the northern spare part of Kutuzovsky Prospekt) and the southern section of the Moscow High-Speed Diameter from the Entuziastov Highway will be initiated. To the 32nd kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road.
Formerly Putin announced On the decision to extend the M12 Moscow-Kazan highway.