Video Review of Construction of 2nd Start-up Package for Phase 1 of M-12

PK 286-290 asphalt laying

Stroytransgaz Group is making progress on the construction of the 2nd Start-up Package for Phase 1 of M-12 Highway (Moscow — Nizhny Novgorod — Kazan) on a section 32 kilometres long. This year’s first asphalt paving operations have started here after the end of winter.

In the end of April, the workers commenced activities on construction of the road surface layers. By now, 183 thousand of tonnes of concrete asphalt surface have been laid along the 32 km section of M-12 Highway. Around 250 thousand tonnes of the mix are expected to be laid this year. The plan is to lay 18 thousand tonnes of the mix along the M-12 section this month, and another 90 thousand tonnes in May. 

The work on the road surface layers construction

At this point, more than 100 people and 37 units of machinery are assigned to the project, including asphalt pavers, road rollers, bitumen spreaders (to distribute primer and pour emulsion), shuttle buggies (to transfer mixed material from dump trucks), skid-steer loaders and dump trucks. The works are being carried out in two shifts. The concrete asphalt mix was supplied to the site from two plants. A team of 13 specialists was engaged in the mix production.

Installation of the span structure of the bridge overpass across the railway

The M-12 Highway is of strategic importance for Russia. It will provide for high-speed motor service between the largest centers of economic growth in the Central, Volga, and Ural Federal Districts and improve the safety and quality of motor road traffic in the regions. In addition, the high-speed route will ensure a stable annual increase in GRP of the regions where the highway will pass, by lifting infrastructural restrictions and materialising the economic potential of individual cities and agglomerations.

The length of M-12 construction Phase 1 is 80 km. The traffic along the 48 km section of the 1st Start-up Package of M-12 Highway Phase 1 (Petushki bypass) was officially launched in December 2022 by the President of the Russian Federation.
The traffic from Moscow to Arzamas along the federal road is expected to be launched in September 2023. Also, it is planned to open the 32 kilometres of the 2nd Start-up Package of M-12 Highway Phase 1 for traffic from the intersection with A-108 Moscow Big Ring Federal Highway to M-7 Volga Highway interchange, bypassing Pokrov.