Mobile bridge across the Amur between Blagoveshchensk and Chinese Heihe. File photoVLADIVOSTOK, June 10The opening of a cross-border bridge across the Amur between Russian Blagoveshchensk and Chinese Heihe is of great importance for all of Russia, said Yury Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister and Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District. East. But the U-turn cannot be done decoratively. In order for it to take place, the Trans-Siberian Railway needs to be expanded to build bridges across the Amur… Therefore, all this work is of great importance not only for the Far East, not only for the Amur Region, but for all of Russia» — Trutnev told reporters. He noted that the bridge «will pay for itself.» «It cuts the road by 300 kilometers, and accordingly, transport costs are reduced, and a significant number of people can use this bridge,» the Deputy Prime Minister added. from both sides at the same time. It was planned to open the bridge in November 2020, but due to the difficult epidemiological situation, the launch of the facility had to be postponed. The construction cost 19 billion rubles, of which 14 billion was the volume of investments in Russian territory. The length of the bridge is 1080 meters. It is two-lane, the total width of the carriageway is 11 meters. The bridge itself from span to span is 18.2 meters. The total length of the bridge crossing is about 20 kilometers. This includes six kilometers of road in China and 13 kilometers of access roads in Russia, in which another 278 meters is a bridge over the Kanikurgan channel. Chekunkov: considering the possibility of opening new checkpoints with China
