Pesoshin takes part in a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin on the construction of the M-12 Vostok highway

On April 28, at the Kazan Expo International Exhibition Centre, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a production meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin on the construction of the M-12 Vostok highway to Tyumen.

Khusnullin said that in the summer of 2020, Russian Government decided to build the largest road project in Russia - the M-12 Vostok highway with a total length of 810 km, part of the international transport corridor of Russia. In 2022, the Avtodor State Company carried out early commissioning of sections of the M-12 Vostok road with a total length of 107 km 2 years ahead of schedule.

“Already this year it is planned to early launch of traffic on the remaining sections of the M-12 Vostok with the length of 703 km. Thus, at the end of the year, we hope that traffic will be open all along the highway from Moscow to Kazan”, Russian Deputy Prime Minister said.

Then, a solemn ceremony of docking the only cable-stayed bridge on the M-12, which connects the banks of the Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod regions across the Oka river, took place in video conference mode.