Contents tagged with Kerch Strait Bridge

  • Crimean authorities invite foreign journalists to visit the construction of the Kerch Strait Bridge

    At the media forum "Open Crimea: With My Own Eyes”, the Kremlin-controlled Minister of Internal Politics, Information and Communications of the Crimea, Dmitry Polonsky, urged foreign journalists to see for themselves that the construction of the Kerch Strait Bridge is "not fake", Crimean News Agency reports.

    "You know that one of the most common false stories lately is that there is no Crimean bridge, and all that is in the media space is Photoshop and pictures. Those colleagues who agree to …

  • Crimean Political Scientist: Construction of the Kerch Bridge will not change anything

    According to associated professor at Tavrida National University and Crimean political scientist Yevhen Goryunov, the construction of the Kerch Bridge will not change the economic situation of the annexed Crimean peninsula, as stated by him during the telethon “Crimea. Three years of resistance.”

    According to him, if the Kerch Bridge is finished, it will not bring any benefits to the peninsula due to the economic situation in neighboring Russia.

    “If it [the Kerch Bridge] will be completed, I …

  • Moscow students to be sent to help construct Kerch bridge

     Students from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) will undertake the construction of the Kerch bridge, the press service of Rosavtodor reports.

    The head of the road agency, Roman Starovoyt, launched the initiative to send students for summer work. According to him, the experience of working on the construction of the Kerch bridge will be useful for future specialists in this area.

    “The unique practical skills gained from the specialists in this area by working on the construction of the …

  • Russia’s National Guard and Federal Security Service will guard the Kerch Strait

    The servicemen of the National Guard and the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation will ensure the security of the waters of the Kerch Strait, Rossiyskaya Gazeta wrote. “If the troops of the Russian National Guard previously served at Lake Baikal or the Yenisei, Volga and Amur rivers and some other marine areas then the Kerch Strait is a new area of responsibility for them,” the Deputy Chief of the National Guard, Major-General Oleg Borukaev stated.

    The significance of the Kerch …

  • Construction of rail track to Kerch Strait Bridge to begin this year

    The construction company, Stroygazmontazh, which is owned by Russian billionaire Arkady Rotenberg, has agreed to build railway accessibility to the Crimean bridge from the peninsula. The construction is supposed to begin this year, as reported by the Minister of Transportation of Russia, Maksim Sokolov.   

    “Yes, they (Stroygazmontazh) expressed their intent to complete this project. We have sent the necessary documents to the Government.  They will start construction this year,” RIA Krym …

  • No bids were submitted for construction of rail tracks to Kerch Straight Bridge in Russia

    The second competition to select a railway contractor for the construction of the railway approaches to the Kerch Straight Bridge failed due to lack of bids, Kommersant reported. The contract is worth 16.9 billion rubles and the work needs to be finished before November 2019. The first competition was announced in September and the only application was filed by OJSC Yakutian Railway, but the company failed to pass the preliminary selection process. The second competition was announced mid- …

  • Russia to produce film on the construction of the Kerch Strait Bridge

    The Russian Ministry of Culture posted an announcement on the state procurement website seeking competitive bids for the production of a special project, "a full-length film with partial financial support from the State on the subject of the construction of the bridge across the Kerch Strait." The film must be completed before the end of November 2017.

    The project budget should not exceed 3 million rubles ($47,700). The Ministry of Culture will accept applications for the production of the …

  • Medvedev: Russia lacks money for Kerch Strait Bridge project

    The Russian Government "hardly" has the money for the construction of the Kerch Strait Bridge in the Crimea, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.

    Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev acknowledged that Russia lacks the money for the implementation of large-scale Crimean projects, in particular for the construction the bridge over the Kerch Strait and the Tavrida highway, he said during a meeting of the Presidium of the State Council of the Russian Federation on the development of the …

  • Putin visits construction site of Kerch Strait Bridge project

    Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Crimea on Thursday and visited the construction site of the Kerch Strait Bridge, according to the Kremlin press service. Before that, he held a meeting in Kerch on the development of the transport infrastructure of Southern Russia and the Crimea where he noted the good pace of the bridge construction.

    "But I want to remind you that the transport passage across the Kerch Strait is not only the bridge itself: it is necessary to qualitatively prepare …

  • Contractor says Kerch Strait Bridge will be completed on time despite US sanctions

    The owner of SGM (Stroygazmontazh, the largest construction company for gas pipelines and electrical power supply lines in Russia), Arkady Romanovitch Rotenberg, who acts as the General Contractor for the construction of the bridge from Kuban to the annexed Crimea, is sure that the U.S. imposed sanctions against the company, SGM-Bridge, will not affect the timing of the project, as stated on the TV channel "Russia 24."

    "We were ready for this, and initially suggested that this may happen. …