Khusnullin: the construction of the M12 highway to Kazan is almost completed

The construction of the M12 highway, which will connect Moscow and Kazan, is almost completed. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Marat Khusnullin, transmits TASS.

“We have completed the bridge across the Volga, sliding [пролетов]. <...> That is, we now have the entire route from Moscow to Kazan completely connected, it remains only to lay asphalt, ”Kusnullin said during a meeting on the development of the construction industry, which is chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

It is planned to complete the construction of the route on December 20. On September 5, the road to Arzamas will be launched, the Deputy Prime Minister specified.

Earlier today Khusnullin spoke via videoconference at a ceremony to mark the completion of the sliding of the span of the bridge across the Volga to M12. He noted that the work was completed a month ahead of schedule. In 2024, it is planned to extend the route to Yekaterinburg, and in 2025 to Tyumen.

The government decided to create a new high-speed toll highway M12 (Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan) in 2020. The 810 km long road should become part of the international transport corridor Europe – Western China, which currently includes the M11 highway (Moscow – St. Petersburg ) and the Central Ring Road. The state customer of the construction is the Avtodor company.

The project was estimated at 623 billion rubles, but in December 2021 Khusnullin in an interview with Vedomosti informed about an increase in the cost of the road by about 200 billion rubles. In January 2023, the cost of the track increased up to 901.5 billion rubles.