Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to consider the construction of the Northern Siberian Railway. In this respect says On the instructions of the head of state, following the meeting with government members in August.
The road should connect the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra with the Baikal-Amur Main Line.
The Council of Ministers of the Russian Federation will have to discuss the issue with the authorities of the Kemerovo region, representatives of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Railways. They must report the results to the president by March 1, 2024.
The project has been in development for a long time
The idea of establishing Sevsib was put into writing. Strategy for the development of rail transport until 2030 (Approved in 2008). The document states that the length of the highway from Nizhnevartovsk to Ust-Ilimsk via Bely Yar will be 1.9 thousand kilometers. The project also provides for an additional branch of 110 kilometers from the future Elchimo station to the Chadobetsky ore deposit.
“Sevsib is considered a parallel route to the Trans-Siberian Railway, which has limited capacity today. “In addition, the project will allow the inclusion of Siberia’s resource base in the production turnover,” he said. explained Russian Minister of Transport Igor Levitin at the V Economic Forum held in Krasnoyarsk in 2008.
In Nizhnevartovsk (KhMAO), Sevsib is planned to be connected to Belkomur, the planned railway line that will connect the Siberian and Urals regions to the northwest of the country.
Construction cost of Sevsib evaluated previously 1.5 trillion rubles.
“This long-needed road is the exit from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug to Zapsib. It is not only necessary to transport cargo through Tyumen, but the route through it is also very long. It also provides access to the Arctic region, Arkhangelsk, Murmansk for all coal fields. If the Northern Latitude Railway (the Northern Latitude Railway is being built in the Yamal Autonomous Okrug – socialbites.ca) is also built… In general, this will be the most important element for today, because the Far East will not be able to do it. must be developed indefinitely.” stated RIA Novosti managing partner of Infra Projects LLC Alexey Bezborodov.
The expert added that Sevsib is also necessary for the development of the Far North.
“Relatively speaking, all these roads from the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug to Murmansk need to be built. Then it will make sense, everything will be closed,” Bezborodov summarized.
East training field construction will continue
The President also instructed to accelerate the creation of plans for the development of the infrastructure of the Baikal-Amur and Trans-Siberian railways and the West Siberian Railway as part of the third stage of the creation of the Eastern educational area.
The main work on the second phase of the expansion of the eastern training ground will be completed by Russian Railways in 2024. While the increase in the carrying capacity of the storage area is expected to increase to 180 million tons, its cost is estimated to be 1.082 trillion rubles. It includes the construction of 280 facilities by the end of 2025.
In the third phase – by 2032 – the carrying capacity in the Eastern field will increase to 255 million tons.
Source: Gazeta
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