The updated five-year road construction plan for 2024-2028 provides for the implementation of 380 projects. The resolution approving such a plan was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. In the previous version of the plan, approved in the summer of 2022, there were more than 250 events.
The total amount of financial support for all road activities is planned for the period of implementation of the plan in the amount of over 14 trillion rubles, of which federal budget funds will amount to 5.6 trillion rubles. The rest is provided by extra–budgetary sources and road funds of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
The activities of the updated plan are divided into two parts – federal and regional.
Almost 1.9 trillion rubles will be allocated for the construction and reconstruction of federal roads. This will allow the introduction of more than 2.1 thousand km of roads.
Regional projects will be implemented on a co-financing basis. Federal funds in the amount of 361.7 billion rubles will allow to carry out work on 142 sites and ensure the construction and reconstruction of roads with a total length of more than 1 thousand km.
Among the landmark projects within the framework of the plan is the development of the transport corridors “Russia”, “North – South”, for which it is planned to continue the M-12 Vostok highway, the construction of bypasses of Makhachkala, Astrakhan, Derbent, Khasavyurt.
Also, for the development of federal highways, the plan provides for the construction and reconstruction of sections of the M-10 “Scandinavia” highway, the construction and reconstruction of the R-215 Astrakhan – Kochubey – Kizlyar – Makhachkala road, work on sections of the M-7 “Volga”, M-5 “Ural”, R-256 “Chuisky Tract” roads, A-360 “Lena”.
Measures to modernize roads of regional, inter-municipal and local significance are planned in Bryansk, Voronezh, Vladimir, Lipetsk, Moscow, Ivanovo, Yaroslavl, Vologda, Novgorod, Leningrad regions, St. Petersburg and other regions.
“Road construction in the country solves a number of large-scale social, economic and infrastructural tasks. Roads make it possible to reduce distances, improve logistics, increase investment potential, stimulate housing and infrastructure development, develop tourism and open up new opportunities for many related activities. The record pace of road construction has been providing accelerated development of all settlements located in the zone of attraction for many years. In 2023 alone, a total of 188 million square meters were laid. m of roadway across the country,” Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin commented on the decision.
The work is carried out within the framework of the state program “Development of the transport system”.
