Work progress at the construction site: M-12 "Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod - Kazan", Phase 1

Reinforcement of road body

29 engineering structures will be built in the Vladimir Oblast on a 80 km road stretch which is now under construction within the Phase 1 of the M-12 Highway Project: 24 bridges and overpasses, 3 cattle passes, and 2 pedestrian underpasses. Work is now underway on 27 structures.

At 17 of them, builders have launched the initial phase of construction – the pile foundation arrangement. The remaining 10 sites perform dynamic or static testing of trial piles. 

Reinforcing and concreting of support pile caps has been completed on 12 engineering structures, and two more facilities are in the final stages. The supports are ready for eight engineering structures.

Span beams were mounted on five structures. The installation of the spans themselves will soon begin at two structures.

Formwork of the slab of the outermost block of a cattle pass

Concreting has been completed on all cattle passes, and waterproofing of the construction sites is currently underway. The underpass at the intersection of M-12 and M-7 is in the final stages of construction. The underpass itself has been built and is now being backfilled, with rough finishing to commence shortly.

These works on 29 structures are scheduled to be completed in full by the middle of Q2 of 2022.

These structures include bridges over the Peksha, Bolshaya Lipnya, and Vol’ga rivers. Temporary bridges have been erected to provide access to these locations.

Earthworks continue on the main route of Phase 1 of the M-12 Highway construction: road body arrangement, sanding, laying of the geodrain, and road shoulder grading. Work is underway on 71 of the 80 km of the main route of the highway. In less than a year builders have completed 38 km of roadbed, 24 km of sandy bed, and 16.5 km of crushed stone sand layer up to their design elevations. They have laid 12 km of the top layer of asphalt concrete pavement before the winter season. Since the start of the road body construction, they have used 6.2 million cubic meters of sand and 951 thousand square meters of crushed stone and sand mixture.

Scaffolding for installation of preassembled blocks of the right span at an overpass over A-108 road

Work continues on rearrangement of utilities within the road construction boundaries. To date, construction and installation works within the road boundaries have been completed on 90 out of 101 utilities. As of today, the following utilities are ready: 52 of 55 communications networks, 12 of 12 electricity networks, 3 of 6 water and sewer lines, 7 of 7 gas lines, 1 of 4 reclamation systems, 2 of 2 outdoor lighting systems, and 15 of 21 railroad networks.

Three production bases and six sites for temporary storage of materials have been fully completed. A construction headquarters was set up at the Annino site. As for the Pokrov site, the Asphalt Concrete Plant No. 1, a ramp for receiving inert materials from the railway cars, and construction headquarters were set up here. Also, two employee dormitories were built. At the Uvarovo base, the construction of headquarters and three dormitories was completed, and employees are now living there. Asphalt Plant No. 2 was placed near the village of Vasilievka. The site for inert materials is 100% complete.

Installation of special ancillary structures and devices for construction of Support No. 2 posts on an overpass through the main ring of the Moscow railroad

Asphalt mix for Phase 1 of the M-12 Highway Construction Project will be made at four plants, and two of them have already been put into operation. The third asphalt plant is currently being constructed and is scheduled to start up in the spring of this year. M-12 will be a Category 1 road with 4 lanes, 2 in each direction. The SP 32-E asphalt concrete mixture is used to build the asphalt carpet coat. It is suitable for roads with heavy traffic and designed for extreme loads. It contains a unique binder designed for weather conditions in Moscow and Vladimir Oblasts.

The construction activities involve about 1,500 people every day, including workers, mechanics, drivers, engineers and technicians, as well as more than 340 units of equipment: excavators, loaders, dozers, rollers, graders, pile-driving machines, dump trucks, etc.

Arrangement of gutter inside a pipe

The 80 km long first phase of the road construction will pass from the intersection with A-108 Moscow Big Ring Federal Highway to the intersection with Volga Federal Highway M-7. The construction of a seamless high-speed road network is in line with the basic principles laid down in the Strategy for Spatial Development of the Russian Federation until 2025, approved by a decree of the Government of the Russian Federation. The Project Owner is the Russian Highways State Company. The road is constructed by Stroytransgaz Group of Companies and designed by GORKA Group.