The first section of the M-12 Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod-Kazan highway, which has been commissioned, has a length of 23 kilometers and connects the central ring road with the large Moscow ring road.
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin proposes to improve the design of the M-12 highway by adding several important connections to railway junctions and ports, and to extend the route all the way to Vladivostok.
“After Yekaterinburg, we see the completion of work to bypass Omsk, Novosibirsk and Kemerovo. Bypass from Blagoveshchensk, bypass from Khabarovsk. Well, complete this work by extending the road to Vladivostok and the bypass around Vladivostok,” the WG quotes Khusnullin’s report to the president as saying.
After being extended to Vladivostok, the M-12 highway will have several exits to China, Kazakhstan and even North Korea and Mongolia simultaneously. The exact location of these exits and where the highway will pass will be determined next summer.
The Deputy Prime Minister also noted the acceleration of the pace of road construction in Russia and explained why this was the result:
“The professionalism of our customers, designers and contractors has grown enormously. We have never built in such a time frame before.”
The highway will become one of the driving forces behind the development of the Russian economy and the most convenient transit route from Europe to the East. But the route has one drawback.
Environmentalists believe that they may not consider a number of key points when designing the road. According to the director of the ANO “Green Civilization”, the head of regional development of the ECA Ecological Movement Dmitry Fedorov, some of the areas through which the road will pass have not been explored in all seasons of the year. Simply put, it is not known what species of Red Book plants, animals and insects live there.
Biologist Askhat Kayumov, Chairman of the Board of the Dront Eco Center, agrees: the influence of the highway on flora and fauna has not been well studied.
Source: Z R
