re: Tunnel to Siberia
RUSSIA'S AMBITIOUS RAILWAY VISION FOR EASTERN SIBERIA FACES REALITY CHECK
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
"The 4,000-kilometer Yakutsk-Magadan-Anadyr section of the rail link in Russia would cost $12-15 billion, the tunnel would take another $10-12 billion, while the remaining amount would be invested in infrastructure development, Razbegin said. The 102-kilometer tunnel would be built in three sections through two islands, while the project would also include oil and gas pipelines across the Bering Strait and a fiber optic cable network, he said (Interfax, RIA-Novosti, April 18)."
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