[2] The estimated volume of traffic at completion is 24 million tons (mainly gas condensate and oil cargo).
[3] Initially, the highway was supposed to be laid by 2015, but due to the lack of a budget solution, the project completion dates were repeatedly postponed.
On the whole, everything is correct, but in this case, the strategic planning document does not set at least the general boundaries of the Arctic railway corridor, considering it not as a complex, but in scattered details.
[8] And only in the departmental documents of the Ministry of Finance of Russia when approving budget classification codes for 2021 and for the planning period of 2022 and 2023.
The northern latitudinal passage is finally taking shape: Obskaya - Salekhard - Nadym - Pangody - Novy Urengoy - Korotchaevo.
[13] In July 2011, Deutsche Bahn and the Ural Industrial-Ural Polar corporation signed a cooperative agreement on the project.
[14] In September of that year, the Ministry of Finance ruled that the Ural Industrial-Ural Polar project was too costly to implement.
[23] On May 11, 2018, Transport Minister M. Sokolov, Russian Railways director general Oleg Belozerov and YNAO head D. Kobylkin laid a time capsule in honor of the start of construction of a bridge across the Ob River, the first key part of the NLR.
[24] Belozerov said, "Today we not only give a symbolic start to the construction of a bridge across the Ob, but we are also opening a new stage in the history of the development of Russian transport infrastructure ...
In addition, the commissioning of the road would make it possible to begin a large-scale utilization of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap accumulated in the Norilsk industrial area.
The largest reserves are in the Yamal Peninsula, more than 90% of Russia's natural gas being produced in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
[28] The railline will remove infrastructure limitations by forging transport links between Yamal and European Russia's industrial facilities and ports.
[1] It will also free up capacity on the Trans-Siberian Railway, and connect the Yamal Peninsula to the national and international rail network.