February 17, 2010

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

Governor of Ugra Alexander Filipenko participated in the meeting of the Road Builders’ Intergovernmental Council Group in Khanty-Mansiysk.

It was discussed the issue about the prolongation of the road-transport corridor which comes across the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Petropavlovsk (Kazakhstan) – Tyumen – Surgut – NovyUrengoi-Nadym-Salekhard and its inclusion into the network of the CIS international highways.

Head  of the Secretariat  of the Road Builders’ Intergovernmental CouncilBuriKarimov welcomed people of the dynamically developing region – Ugra. He said about the necessity of further development of infrastructure and first of all – road network and said about the role of the region’s head, bridge-builder and constructor in this sphere. Karimov supported the idea of Governor Alexander Filipenko that Ugra – the natural and only hub in the system of Russia’s roads – which connects all geographic directions  by transport corridors: west-east and north-south. Here are connected three latitudinal corridors: from the Northern Seaway, trans-Siberian and trans-Asian mainlines. They make it possible to deliver production of the North and whole Russia to European and Asian markets.

Speaking his colleagues from CIS, Europe and USA about the role of Ugra in economy and infrastructure of Russia, Alexander Filipenko said that “the corridor will not come along a desert. The most part of it has been constructed although some roads and bridges need in reconstruction and modernization”.

Deputy Chairman of the Government for construction complex Alexei Safiollin said about four options of the corridor from Salekhard to Petropavlovsk. A video enabled participants of the meeting to learn about the options. Representatives of CIS, European and American road companies who agreed to participate in the project, will determine goals of their participation. It was made a decision today in Khanty-Mansiysk: a new road-transport corridor is an additional impulse to strengthen integration processes on the post-soviet and also Eurasian  territory.