The investment project “Murmansk — Petrozavodsk, construction of second railway tracks” is being implemented in accordance with the orders of the Russian Government on the development of railway infrastructure on the approaches to the ports of North-West Russia and the construction of the Lavna Sea Trade Port to ensure the passage of additional cargo traffic (18 million t) to existing and under construction ports located in the northern part of the Kola Peninsula.
The Strategy for the Development of Railway Transport in the Russian Federation until 2030 and the Transport Strategy of the Russian Federation provide for the construction of new express and high-speed lines. The implementation of the Moscow - St. Petersburg high-speed railway project (VSZhM-1) will improve transport links between the regions of the Russian Federation, reduce passenger travel time and provide them with a qualitatively new level of service.
According to the forecasts of JSC "IERT" by 2030, the population of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region will exceed 8.5 million people (currently - 7.1 million).
Compared to 2018, the volume of suburban passenger traffic at the St. Petersburg hub will grow 1.8 times and will amount to 142.4 million people per year, and the volume of cargo to the sea terminals of OZD and St. Petersburg will increase 1.4 times - up to 261 million tons per year.
For the first time, Lengiprotrans began to consider the development of railway approaches to the port of Ust-Luga in 1992, when it took part in the development of the General Scheme for the development of seaports on the shores of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea.
The impetus for large-scale construction was the active development of the port to increase the cargo turnover to 180 million tons, of which 118 million tons were planned to be delivered by rail.
The development of the railway infrastructure of the Ust-Luga railway hub and on the approaches to it was dictated by the need to increase the volume of cargo transshipment at the Ust-Luga Commercial Sea Port.
The project of organizing the passenger railway communication St. Petersburg-Vitebsky - Pulkovo Airport was developed by Lengiprotrans in the 2010s.
The Aeroexpress route will run from Pulkovo airport to Vitebsk railway station with a mandatory stop at Kupchino station, which will help to include the blue metro line in the route. The travel time of the electric trains will be 25 minutes.
The non-public railway line Bovanenkovo - Sabetta will be the final link in the exit of the Northern latitudinal railway (Obskaya-2 - Salekhard - Nadym - Pangody - Novy Urengoy - Korotchaevo) to the Northern Sea Route, which will provide a connection between the general railway network and the shortest sea route between the European part Russia and the Far East.
In addition, the railway line is necessary for the delivery of goods and crews to the port of Sabetta, to the gas condensate fields of the Yamal Peninsula and for the export of liquid hydrocarbons.
Sabetta is a seaport on the eastern coast of the Yamal Peninsula. It is designed to transport liquefied natural gas and provide year-round navigation along the Northern Sea Route.
The project of railway approaches to the port of Sabetta included the following works.
As part of design and survey work:
• performance of field engineering and geodetic, hydrometeorological and environmental surveys (with completion of work in 2016), engineering and geological surveys (with completion of work on artificial structures in the winter season 2016–2017);
Balezino is a junction railway station on the Kirov - Perm line of the Gorkovskaya railway. It is a docking station between alternating and direct current.
In the Eastern park of Balezino station, Lengiprotransom designed the construction of two and lengthening of one track to ensure the formation and passage of transit trains of increased length (100 conventional wagons).
The seaport of Taman is located on the Taman Peninsula in the Temryuk District of the Krasnodar Territory. The port is designed to develop transport and logistics capacities of the Azov-Black Sea basin, create direct access to international trade routes and ensure transport links with the territory of the Republic of Crimea. _one_
