Thursday, July 3, 2025
Russia plans a $1.5 billion (100 billion rubles) highway to Crimea, in a bid to dramatically cut journey times and develop tourism on the peninsula it annexed from Ukraine in 2014, Liga.net reported Monday. The first section will be 68 km long and is slated to cost almost 60 billion rubles ($919 million), with...
Russia announced on Tuesday that train movement across a Trans-Siberian railway bridge in the country's far east, which was destroyed by floods last week, has been fully restored. The world's longest railway serves as a vital link in the Russian economy, transporting not only people but also goods such as oil, wood,...
Energia Space Rocket Corporation of Russia intends to build a new reusable space freighter based on the newest Oryol crewed spacecraft under construction, Energia Chief Designer and Twice Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Solovyov said TASS on Monday. "We aim to build a reusable cargo spaceship based on the...
Cranes hover above the gleaming Neva River at St. Petersburg's historic Baltic Shipyard, where hundreds of workers are constructing four nuclear-powered icebreakers. The massive warships, which are emblazoned with the Russian flag and named after the country's northern regions, are designed to maintain Moscow's control over the melting Arctic. Russia has...
Norilsk has finished a reconstruction of the runway at its Alykel airport, the main air hub in the Krasnoyarsk Region, and the runway has served the first flights, according to Alexander Neradko, head of the Russian aviation authority Rosaviatsiya, Gornovosti reports.   "The runway’s reconstruction is over and the first...
Dangers could be lurking around the corner for Russian steel makers despite them ramping up production and making the most of rising prices and demand in 2017, Reuters reports. The country’s top two steel companies, NLMK and Evraz, reported this week their 2017 output is up by about 3 percent,...
Russia is planning to build a new transport and logistics center close to its border with China, WorldHighways reported. The facility will be constructed in the Jewish Autonomous Region in the country’s Far East, sited close to the new Amur River Bridge, currently being constructed to improve transport links...
After 30 years, a failed Soviet rocket project from the end of the 1980s might see new life, as Russia is planning a new super-heavy rocket based on the Energia from 1988, Popular Mechanics reports. According to the report, although a high-profile expensive project would invigorate the troubled industry, its...
According to TASS, the average cost per square meter of flats in Moscow grew by 17% in August 2021 compared to the previous year, while in St. Petersburg it increased by 34%, according to Alexei Popov, the chairman of the CIAN analytical center, TASS reports. In August, the average projected...
Sheremetyevo International Airport is set to commission its newly reconstructed first runway one (RWY-1) today in a ceremony that will feature a parade of airfield equipment. Aeroflot will inaugurate the runway with a flight SU022 that is scheduled to depart for St. Petrsburg at 4:05 pm. With the commissioning of Runway-1, which features two new high-speed-exit...