The construction of the highway cost 19 billion rubles.
The first automobile bridge across the Amur River has opened in Russia, which connects the cities of Blagoveshchensk and the Chinese Heihe.
According to RIA “News ”, the launch ceremony was attended by the Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China Hu Chunhua, Head of the Ministry of Transport of Russia Vitaly Saveliev.
The Chinese representative gave the start of the movement, saying in Russian: “Let’s go!”.
According to the head of the Amur Region Vasily Orlov, the average price of a car crossing the bridge will be 8,700 rubles, and it will be reduced later. And Saveliev added that the volume of cargo turnover will be about 1 million tons per year.
The start was given for eight tractors of the Gazprom Helium Service LLC fleet, which went through the checkpoint Kani-Kurgan — Heihe. Eight trucks with tires and electrical components also moved from China.
It is known that the construction of the highway was started at the end of 2016, it was carried out from two sides.
The opening was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Of the 19 billion rubles that were spent on construction, Russia gave 14 billion.
The length of the two-lane highway, RIA Novosti specifies, is 1,080 m, the width of the carriageway is 11 m, total is 18.2 m.
The length of the bridge crossing is about 20 km, of which 13 km in Russia, 6 km in China and 278 m is occupied by the bridge over the Kanikurgan Bayou.
The capacity of the bridge is 630 trucks per day, 164 buses and 68 cars.
Earlier, Topnews wrote that the bridge in Blagoveshchensk was completed in 2019.