Putin gave instructions for the construction of the North Siberian Railway
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Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to consider the issue of building the North Siberian Railway (SevSib), which will connect the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug with the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM). List of orders published on the Kremlin website.
“The Government of the Russian Federation, together with the government of the Kemerovo region – Kuzbass, the federal state budgetary institution “Russian Academy of Sciences” and the open joint-stock company “Russian Railways”, consider the issue of building the North Siberian Railway,” the document says.
The report on this assignment must be submitted no later than March 1. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Governor of the Kemerovo Region Sergei Tsivilev, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Krasnikov and General Director were appointed responsible for its implementation Russian Railways Oleg Belozerov.
The instruction was given following a meeting with government members, which took place on August 16.
The North Siberian Railway project appeared in the 1950s. Previously it was assumed that the railway would pass through the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, the Tomsk region, Krasnoyarsk region and the Irkutsk region, where it will connect with the BAM. SevSib was included in the draft Strategy for the Development of Railway Transport in Russia until 2030. Earlier, Deputy Governor of the Tomsk Region for Economics Andrei Antonov reported that this project is of great importance for organizing freight flows in these regions.
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