Bridge to the Russky Island over the Eastern Bosphorus Strait

Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai 

Bridge specifications 

• Total bridge length: 1885,53 m 
• Bridge layout: 60+72+3х84+1104+3х84+72+60 m 
• Total length with approach viaducts: 3100 m 
• Main span length: 1104 m 
• Roadway width: 21 m 
• Traffic lanes: 4  
• Navigational clearance: 70 m  
• Pylons height: 320 м  
• The longest to shortest cable stay: 579,8/135,8 m 

Fast Facts 

• Russky Island Bridge is one of the world's longest cable-stayed bridges bridge. With the central span length of 1104 meters it is the world record breaker in bridge construction.  
• The high strength, durability, and corrosion resistance indicators ensure long life of the stay cables (the design service life is 100 years). 

• Large-scale structures for the installation of the central span were delivered by barges to the assembly site and uplifted to a height of 76 meters. 

Project timeline 

• September 2008 - start of construction works. 
• August 2009 - construction of supports and installation of the first spans. 
• July 19, 2011 – kick off of the large scale construction phase of the bridge - installation of the cable-stayed structure. 
• April 12, 2012 - installation of the 1104-meter span. 
• April 16, 2012 - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated the bridge builders on the successful completion of the channel span. 
• July 2, 2012 - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev opened the bridge for traffic. 
• August 1, 2012  - the bridge launch ceremony. 

Highway bridge across the Amur River

Blagoveshchensk (Amur region, Russia) and Heihe (Heilongjiang province, China) 

SK MOST specialists built the section of the bridge across the Amur river on the territory of Russia, the bridge over the Bayou Kanikurganskaya and the connecting road between them. The Blagoveshchensk-Heihe bridge between Russia and China will increase cargo transportation and strengthen economic ties. 

Bridge specifications 

• Total bridge length: 1080,5 m  
• Bridge layout: 2х84+5х147+2х84 m  
• Total length with approach viaducts: 19,9 km  
• Bridge length on the territory of Russia: 540 m 
• Roadway width: G11,5 (2,0+2х3,75+2,0) m 
• Traffic lanes: 2  
• Pillars: 10 
• Weight of steel span structures: 3900 ton 
• Navigable sections: 3  

Bridge over the Bayou Kanikurganskaya specifications  

• Total bridge lenth: 278 m 
• Bridge layout: 63+84+52+65 m 
• Roadway width: G11,5 (2,0+2х3,75+2,0) m 

Fast facts 

• Blagoveshchensk-Heihe bridge is designed as a steel-reinforced concrete extradosed bridge. It looks similar to cable-stayed bridge, but unlike the latter, the cables of the extradosed provide longitudinal compression of cross sections of the span, providing additional strength in the support zones, which allows to reduce the number of steel elements, the length of the cables, the height of the pylons, the weight of the beam and, consequently, to reduce construction costs. 
• The bridge construction was carried out jointly by Russia and China. The meetings were held on the design and construction of the bridge with the participation of builders and engineers from both countries several times a year in order to avoid any discrepancies.  

Project timeline 

• June 15, 2016 – a concession agreement for the construction of a border bridge across the Amur river near the cities of Blagoveshchensk and Heihe was signed in Harbin.   
• December 24, 2016 – start of construction. 
• March 2017 – Russia and China launched construction works on both banks of the Amur river.  
• Spring 2018 – the bridge over the Bayou Kanikurganskaya constructed. 
• October 2018– the builders started installation of the pylons and shrouds of the main bridge over the Amur river.  
• May 2019 – the first cross-border road bridge between Russia and China is linked. 
• November 2019 – traffic is allowed in the test mode on the Russian part of the bridge across the Amur river. The main construction works on the Russian part of the bridge are completed. 
• November 29, 2019 – the first international road bridge across the Amur river was visited by the Minister of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic A. Kozlov and the Governor of the Amur region V. Orlov. 
• July 2020 – construction completed. 
• May 2020 – Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation issued an official permit to put the border bridge crossing over the Amur river into operation. 

Railway bridge across the Amur River

on the section of the Russian-Chinese border near Nizhneleninskoye (Jewish Autonomous region, Russia) and Tongjiang (Heilongjiang province, China) 

SK MOST is responsible for constructing the Russian part of the railway bridge over the Amur river and access roads, the new Leninsk-2 railway station and the reconstruction of the existing Leninsk-1 railway station. This infrastructure facility will result in the trimming off the transportation route by 1,763 km for delivery of goods from enterprises of the Far Eastern region to consumers in China and South-East Asia. 

Bridge specifications 

• Total bridge length: 2209 m 
• Bridge length on the territory of Russia: 309 m 
• Total length with approach viaducts: 5272,6 m  
• Bridge layout: 60+108+132+144+16х108 m 
• Bridge headroom: 15 m 
• Pillars: 21 
• Navigable sections: 2 

Fast facts 

The bridge features two tracks. It is designed for railroad switch of different gauge: width of track of 1520 mm for Russian rolling stock and 1435 mm for Chinese. 

Project timeline 

• June 20, 2013 – an agreement on the construction of a railway bridge across the Amur river was signed at the XVII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. 
• June 2016 – start of construction works on the Russian side. 
• October 10, 2018 – installation of a span on pillars connecting the Russian and Chinese parts. 
• March 21, 2019 - Russian and Chinese specialists successfully connected both parts of the cross-border railway bridge.  
• Summer 2021 – the bridge is put into operation. 

Bridge over the Zeya River

Blagoveshchensk, Amur region 

The bridge is located 2.85 km from the mouth of the Zeya River. It will be built from the intersection of Gorky and Pervomayskaya streets to the junction with the federal highway ‘Entrance to the city Blagoveshchensk’. This infrastructure facility will relieve the existing bridge located upstream of the river mouth by 40-60%. 

Bridge specifications 

Total length: 9007 m 

Bridge length

• River channel section: 428 m 
• Overpass section: 1504 m 
• Bridge layout: 5 × 33 + 61,3 + (82,2 + 2 × 132 + 82,2) + 15 × 84 
• Height of pillars: 16 m 
• Roadway width: 7 m 
• Road length: 7070 m 

Road structures 

• Overpass – 1 
• Highway interchanges – 3 
• Retaining walls – 2 
• Pillars – 26 

Total length of road structures (bridge and overpass) - 2022,45 m 

Construction project timeline 

Start of works – June 2020 

The project life cycle (phases): 

First Phase: preparation works, construction of supports of the channel section, supports of the right and left banks overpasses, construction of an overpass adjacent to the federal highway, the beginning of construction of the earth-filled roadbed. 

Second Phase: assembly and sliding of metal structures of spans of the riverbed part of the bridge and the left bank overpass, construction of an overpass at the junction with the federal highway, retaining wall construction, the construction of the roadbed is done. 

Third Phase: construction of the roadway slab of channel and viaduct bridge sections, stay cable system installation, erection of viaduct span pillars on the right bank overpass, putting in place the roadway and railings, the overpass at the junction to the federal highway, roadway D-1, as well as bank protection installations and construction of sewage treatment plant. 

The final works include organization of transportation planning, energy facilities, transportation facilities and communications, bridge diagnostic load testing.

Railway bridge across the Don River

at the 280th kilometer of Morozovskaya - Volgograd section of Privolzhskaya Railway Line 

The bridge will support traffic of freight trains weighing up to 12 thousand metric tons moving at a speed of up to 90 kilometers per hour. After the new bridge will be opened for traffic, the old bridge will be dismalted. 

Bridge specifications 

• Total bridge length: 791,56 m  
• Bridge layout: 33,6+4х77+110+154+132+33,6 m 
• Number of span structures: 9  

Fast facts 

One of the most difficult stages of bridge construction was the installation of support No. 8 between navigable fairways with a water depth of up to 20 m in the construction area. Due to the large depths, the construction of the support was carried out using a suspended bottom without sheet piling into the ground. The support is designed with a high pile grillage that is not supported by the river bottom. First, 22 bored piles with a diameter of 1500 mm were installed at the base of the support. Then a metal suspended bottom was submerged in the water to a depth of 13 m with the help of auxiliary structures, on which a metal box-shaped section was installed. Metal suspended bottom-the base for the backfill layer and the construction of the grillage. After the installation of the backfill layer, water was pumped out of the metal box-section member and the construction of the support was done in the usual way. 

Project timeline 

• November 2011 – start of works. 
• June 2013 – installation of the first 33.6 m long span structure on supports No. 9 and No. 10 on the left bank of the Don River. 
• August 2017 – installation afloat of the largest bridge span with a total weight of more than 1200 tons and a length of 154 meters.  
• June 2018 – closure of the main span of the railway bridge over the Don River. 
• January 2020 – installation of the inventory rails with a length of 12.5 meters on BMP slabs. 

The construction project is planned to be completed in 2021.

Double-track railway viaduct in Serbia

KM 59+159.40 on the section Stara Pazova-Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia 

The construction of the facility is part of the reconstruction, modernization and construction of the double – track railway ‘Belgrade – Stara Pazova – Novi Sad – Subotica-State border’ in Serbia. 

The viaduct is a unique engineering structure of 6 sections ("Gallery", "A", "B", "C", "D", "E") and 96 supports, 3 of which are anchor delta-shaped supports. 

Bridge specifications 

• Total viaduct length: 2936,18 m 
• Viaduct width: 2 х 8,3 m 
• Paired part width: 12,8 m 
• Pillars height: from 3 m up to 25 m 
• Length / diameter of bored piles: 18-35 m / 1,2-2 m 

Fast facts  

• Structural height of some pillars reaches 25 meters similar to the height of an 8-storey building 

• The design of the main span is the engineering feature of this structure. Currently, 93% of monolithic prestressed reinforced concrete slabs of box-shaped and solid sections are completed. This solution enables the constructed viaduct to fit the terrain. Such building structures as prestressed bridge girder for railway loading were calculated according to European standards. 

Project timeline  

• October 2017 – start of works. 
• November 2017 – implementation of drilling and concreting of the first pile. 
• February 2019 – implementation of drilling and concreting of the last pile. 
• March 2019 - the first span was installed and concreted. 
• May 2019 - the last of 79 grillage-type structures is concreted. 
• May 2019 - construction of the first anchor delta-shaped support. 
• September 2019 - construction of the last support. 
• May 2020 - start interlocking spans construction. 
• October 2020 - completion of construction and installation works. 
• September 2021 - end of construction (after test mode). 

New Baikal tunnel

section Delbichinda - Daban of the East Siberian railway 1006 km - 1013 km of the section Ust-Kut - Severobaikalsk 

The construction of the second Baikal tunnel is being carried out on the Irkutsk region and the Republic of Buryatia borders within the framework of the federal target program ‘Modernisation of the Railway Infrastructure of the Baikal-Amur and Trans-Siberian Main Line Railways with the Development of Through and Carrying Capacity’. This infrastructure facility will almost double the capacity on the Lena-Severobaikalsk section: from 15 to 25 pairs of trains. 

Tunnel specifications 

• Total bridge length: 6682,05 m 
• Length of the western gallery: 1500 m 
• Length of the eastern gallery: 1747,36 m 

Fast facts   

• The new Baikal tunnel is the second longest railroad tunnel in Russia and one of the largest artificial structures in the country.
• Unique sliding gate with the wings made with polymer composite materials are installed at the entrances to the new tunnel. The large-sized constructions consisting of fiberglass skins and a special core material are sandwich panels 6.8 meters high and 3.2 meters wide. The weight of each wing is 850 kg. The main application of the gate is the protection of the tunnel from environmental hazards, increased humidity and low temperatures. In an emergency break-down of automatic equipment or a drive mechanism, it can be destroyed by a railway engine without damaging a railway train. 

Project timeline  

• May 2014 – start of works. 
• June 2014 - installation of the Lovat RM 394DS tunnel boring complex with a cutting diameter of 10.2 m and excavation launch. 
• October 2014 – Baikal tunneling commencing. 
• March 5, 2018 - Russian President V.V. Putin in a videoconference gave the command to complete the construction of the second Baikal tunnel. 
• April 2019 - completion of construction of the track structure. 
• November 14, 2019 - commissioning of the portal sliding gate. 
• December 2020 – end of construction. 

Underground construction

SK MOST Group of companies participated in the construction of the following underground lines: 

• Nekrasovskaya line (from the station Okskaya to the station Nizhegorodskaya), Kozhukhovskaya (from the station Lukhmanovskaya to the station Nekrasovka and from the station Lukhmanovskaya to the station Kosino) and Krasnopresnenskaya (from the station Vykhino to the station Kotelniki) of the Moscow metro 
• Dzerzhinskaya line (from the station Marshala Pokryshkina to the station Berezovaya Roscha) of the Novosibirsk metro 

Currently, SK MOST specialists are engaged in the construction of the Tekstilshchiki - Pechatniki - Nagatinsky Zaton section of the Eastern section of the Third interchange circuit of the Moscow Metro's Large Circle Line. 

Section Tekstilshchiki - Pechatniki - Nagatinsky Zaton of the Large Circle Line  

The interstation tunnels are driven using Herrenknecht S-517 (10690) Victoria tunnel boring complex with the construction of a high-precision precast reinforced concrete lining. 

Project specifications 

• Total underground installation length: 2957 m 

Length of the interstation tunnel  

• Tekstilshchiki - Pechatniki: 1308 m 
• Pechatniki - Nagatinsky Zaton: 1652.4 m 

Tunnel diameter: 

• external: 10.3 m 
• internal: 9.4 m. 

Fast facts 

• Usually TBM is relocated to a new facility disassembled, however, SK MOST specialists were able to carry out a unique operation of relocating TBM Victoria with diameter over 10 meters assembled to the construction site of Tekstilshchiki station. 
• For the first time in Russia, the assembled 10-meter shield of the TBM was moved from the surface of the construction site to the foundation pit of the Tekstilshchiki underground station. 
• On May 18, 2020, tunneling under the railway tracks of the operating line of the Moscow Railway was successfully completed. Thanks to the exquisite work of USK MOST JSC specialists, the subsidence of the surface and railway tracks did not exceed 7.8 mm with an allowable value of no more than 26.2 mm. 
• In March 2020, the Victoria tunnel boring complex entered the Guinness Book of Records when 23 shields were used simultaneously to excavate underground tunnels of the Moscow metro railroad. 

Project timeline  

• November 2019 - start of works. Relocation and assembly of TBM Herrenknecht 10690. 
• January 27, 2020 - Moscow Mayor S.S. Sobyanin launched the construction of the Tekstilshchiki - Pechatniki double-track interstation tunnel. 
• March 2021 - end of construction. 

Infrastructure objects of Sabetta seaport

Sabetta, Yamal Peninsula, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Today, Sabetta is the youngest sea port in Russia and occupies the leading position in terms of cargo turnover growth. The constructed seaport provides year-round navigation of gas carriers and their passage along the Northern sea route. 

Sabetta port facilities 

• approach channel 6 km long, 495 m wide, with a bottom mark of minus 15.1 m; 
• sea channel 49 km long, 295 m wide, with a bottom mark of minus 15.1 m; 
• water area with a bottom mark minus 15.2 m. 
• Total volume of dredging operations: 70 million cubic meters m. 

Navigational aids were installed in the port and coastal infrastructure facilities were built: 

• monitoring and correcting station
• hydrometeorological stations and observation post
• administration,technical and warehouse buildings

Fast facts 

• Works were carried out practically from scratch in severe climate, hydrology and soil conditions beyond the Arctic Circle in the complete absence of transport infrastructure on the coast. 
• The navigation period in this region when dredging operations and the delivery of heavy cargo by water can be done is very short - no more than 70 days (August - October). 

Project timeline  

• September 2012 – start of infrastructure facilities construction at the Sabetta seaport. 
• July 2013 - 19 vessels sailed from Murmansk towards Sabetta for dredging operations. 
• At the end of 2013, a special channel was created for delivery of equipment and materials to the port construction site. 
• 2014-2018 - the main dredging operations for the construction of hydrotechnical facilities of the Sabetta seaport completed - the approach and sea channels, as the water area of ​​the port. 

Combined Adler – Alpika Service mountain resort motorway and railway Route

Sochi, Krasnodar region 

Combined motorway and railway route Adler – “Alpika-Service” Mountain Resort (town of Krasnaya Polyana) was being built as part of the preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The new 48.2-km long route is the most complex Olympic infrastructure project. 

Project specifications 

Total length: 48,2 km 

SK MOST built the following installations in the section between the 14th and 46th kilometer marks of the route: 

• 9 tunnels: 6 railway and 3 highway; 
• 3 service/escape galleries; 
• 45 bridges: 22 railway and 23 highway;  
• 5 of 23 highway bridges are extracurricular from 631 to 1295 m long. 

The length of road bridges spans ranges from 33 to 126 m. 

• 8 of 22 railway bridges are extracurricular from 599 to 2517 m long. The beams are 18.2, 23 and 33.6 m long, the trusses are 55, 66 and 110 m long. 
• over 23 kilometers of earth-filled roadbed. 

Fast facts 

• All highway bridges of the combined route have been designed to withstand elevated seismic loads that can occur in the region when exposed to earthquake of up to 9 points. 
• The steel span structures of the bridges are installed using bearings, movement joints, and dampers manufactured by Maurer and Mageba companies for construction of railway line to Sochi. 

Project timeline 

• 2009  – project start. 
• 2013 – project completion. 

Reconstruction of the railway infrastructure on Sakhalin

Far Eastern Railway, Sakhalin Region 

As part of the reconstruction of infrastructure facilities of the Far Eastern Railway from 1,067 mm to 1,520 mm gauge, a unique and unprecedented project in its geographical distribution is being implemented, including the reconstruction of 62 road structures and approach embankments with railway tracks. 

Reconstruction of road structures 

• 21 bridge on the line Korsakov – Arsent'yevka; 
• 31 bridges + 1 pipe-culvert on the line Arsent'yevka - Buyukly
• 9 facilities on the Nevelsk-Chekhov section. 

The longest bridge 141.22 m long is located on 249 km of railway. 

Fast facts 

• Facilitiesare constructed without closing traffic in the intervals between the headway of freight and passenger trains. 
• During construction works SK MOST specialists sometimes encountered wild animals such as bears. 

Project timeline 

• January 2018 – start of works. 
• November 2018 – installation of the bridge spans on 269 km of the Arsent'yevka – Nogliki section of the Far Eastern railway.  
• Summer 2019 - re-alignment to the 1520 gauge was completed on 53 facilities of the Korsakov – Arsent'yevka – Nogliki section. 
• October 2019 – first train passed on the new 249 km railway axis after reconstruction. 
• June 2020 - reconstruction works of railway infrastructure in the Sakhalin region on the line Nevelsk - Chekhov. 
• August 2020 – end of construction. 

Elegest coal deposit

The Elegest coal deposit is the largest undeveloped coal deposit in Russia. The creation of a mining and processing plant there will satisfy the Russian metallurgical industry’s long-term demand for coking coal, and the quality of the coal will ensure that the concentrate will be in demand in Asia-Pacific markets.

Main characteristics:

Total area of 84 km²

Volume of balance reserves of 855 million t

Coal concentrate output of 15 million t per year

Elegest–Kyzyl–Kuragino Railroad

At a length of 410 km, the Elegest–Kyzyl–Kuragino railway is the largest railway in the history of modern Russia: 120 km will run through the Tyva Republic and the remaining 290 km will go through Krasnoyarsk Krai. This railway line will be the first step in fully developing the Elegest deposit, with its unique coking coal reserves, and it will connect Tuva with the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Main characteristics:

Length: 410 km

Number of bridges: 127

Number of tunnels: 8

Total volume of freight traffic: 15 million t/year

Coal Port Terminal in Khabarovsk Krai

The coal port terminal in Khabarovsk Krai is a key component of the logistics of the Far East project. It will ensure the export of coal to Asia-Pacific countries.

Main characteristics:

Area of the terminal: 100 ha

Terminal capacity: over 15 million t of coal/year