2024-02-15 19:28:17
Trains on the high-speed railway between Moscow and St. Petersburg will run every 15 minutes, Russian Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev said at a meeting on the construction of the high-speed railway, which took place on the evening of February 15 conducted via video link Russian President Vladimir Putin. The official website of the head of state reports this.
“The construction of a high-speed highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg is just the beginning. In the future, there is the organization of such communication in the direction of Ryazan, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Adler, as well as the capital of Belarus, Minsk,” the president said.
Putin noted that the idea of creating a high-speed railway from Moscow to Minsk is supported by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
As for the high-speed railway between St. Petersburg and Moscow, according to the Ministry of Transport, its construction will require more than 600 billion rubles from the budget. According to the head of the ministry, at the first stage it is planned to launch 28 trains that will run at a speed of 360 km/h.
Before the meeting, the president visited the Ural Locomotives plant in the city of Verkhnyaya Pyshma in the Sverdlovsk region.
Putin inspected the electric train assembly complex. The Ural Locomotives plant is engaged in the design, production and maintenance of rolling stock. The plant’s specialists, together with Russian Railways, are working on creating an unmanned train.
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