In the 2000s, Lengiprotrans developed a project for a transport interchange at the intersection of Rossiysky Prospekt with the existing main road on the Dacha Dolgorukova - Zanevsky Post section. The overpass became the final link in the formation of the Central Arc Highway connecting Primorskoye and Peterhofskoye highways bypassing the center of St. Petersburg.
The traffic junction connected the Russian and Industrial avenues and provided transport links: the right-bank part of the city with the enterprises of the non-residential zone of Rzhevka and with recreation areas on the Karelian Isthmus, the Porokhovye district with the enterprises of the right-bank zone of the Nevsky district, the northern part of St. Petersburg with the Murmansk highway. This contributed to the observance of the permissible level of air pollution and improved the ecological situation in the city.
On December 14, 2005 the overpass was opened. On May 15, 2014, the structure was named Russian overpass.
