Russian state company Avtodor and China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) have agreed on measures to accelerate the commissioning of part of the M12 Moscow-Kazan route by the end of 2023. In this respect Wrote The TASS agency cited the message of Igor Koval, deputy chairman of the Russian investment policy board.
“The CRCC has confirmed the possibility of accelerated commissioning of the M12 Moscow-Kazan highway by the end of this year,” he said, adding that this is the fifth phase of construction of the 108-kilometer road run by the Chinese. side.
The total length of the M12 project from Moscow to Yekaterinburg will be about 1.6 thousand km. The 811 km long M12 motorway will pass through Moscow, Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod regions, Chuvashia and Tatarstan.
The 794 km route from Kazan to Yekaterinburg will pass through the territory of Tatarstan, Bashkiria, the Perm Territory and the Sverdlovsk Territory. Thanks to the route, the travel time from Kazan to Yekaterinburg will decrease from 14 hours to 7 hours. It will take 6.5 hours instead of 12 hours to cross the Moscow-Kazan route.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking to the Federal Assembly in the second half of February declarationthe ongoing M12 Moscow-Kazan highway will be extended to Yekaterinburg and eventually to Vladivostok.