It is Planned to Build 26 Artificial Structures at Stage 1 of the M-12 Construction in the Vladimir Region

Vyacheslav Petushenko, Head of the State Company Avtodor, Mars Gazizullin, First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of the State Company, and Vladimir Lavlentsev, General Director of JSC Stroytransgaz, held a meeting at the headquarters of the construction project for Stage 1 of the M-12 Highway Moscow–Nizhny Novgorod–Kazan. They discussed issues of territory preparation and work plans for the near future.

Vyacheslav Petushenko paid special attention to water disposal measures associated with the period of spring floods.

That is necessary to prevent flooding of the sites under preparation for construction and risks for the existing road network.

Stage 1 of the M-12 Highway has a large number of intersections with roads and water bodies. 26 artificial structures are expected to be built under the project.

Technological roads and construction camps are under development, while stocks of sand and gravel are being accumulated as part of the territory preparation.

The M-12 is about 800 km long, and almost 220 km will lie within the Vladimir Region. 

In this constituent entity of the Russian Federation, construction will be carried out in four stages: from Orekhovo-Zuevo (border with the Moscow Region), bypassing Vladimir, to the intersection with the regional road to Gus-Khrustalny, next to Murom to the bridge over the Oka River (border with the Nizhny Novgorod Region). 

In four years, residents of the Vladimir Region will be able to quickly and safely travel along the M-12 to Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, and Moscow. It will take 1.5 hours to travel to Moscow and 2 hours to Nizhny Novgorod.  

Opportunities of the neighbouring regions such as jobs, education, entertainment will become accessible. Business will also gain advantages. For instance, the territory attractiveness for production facility development will increase as the sales markets will become closer.

The M-12 High-Speed Highway construction is part of the Europe–Western China federal project. In view of its unique geographical location, the highway will become a link between the network of high-speed highways under development by the State Company Avtodor in the European part of Russia (Central Ring Road, M-11 Neva, M-3 Ukraine, M-1 Belarus, M-4 Don) and the largest regional centres and agglomerations.

The high-speed route will ensure a stable annual increase in the domestic regional product (GRP) of the Moscow, Vladimir, and Nizhny Novgorod Regions, Chuvashia and Tatarstan as infrastructure restrictions in the Volga Federal District will be lifted and the economic prospects of individual cities and agglomerations will materialise.