Russia hopes EU and US will lift sanctions by allowing them to participate in construction of Siberian transport network
The transport system project "United Eurasia", valued at $240 billion and developed in Russia, is expected to be implemented by 2035. The details of the project were reported by Kommersant with information taken from a letter to the Deputy Minister and the project’s own documentation.
The Security Council of the Russian Federation and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexander Nekipelov, proposed the project to Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. United Eurasia will develop a system of transport-logistic corridors in Siberia.
The document outlines a proposal to share project involvement with China, the USA and European countries in exchange for lifting the sanctions against Russia.
The authors envision the creation of two 9,600 km-long transport-logistic corridors, a new high-speed railway at the base of the Eastern testing ground of Russian Railways and a network of transshipping hubs.
At their base in Siberia, in the Far East and the Arctic, transport-logistics will be maximized with the use of water routes, aircraft hubs, and networks of quick-assembly runway systems for small aircraft and even heavy-lift and long range airships.
Developers consider that the scope of the project and the return on investment periods (15 to 20 years) will encourage business and allow " epatriation of Russian capital from offshore” sources.