Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on Friday that common freight rail providers by way of the 19-km-long Crimea Bridge, which connects the peninsula with mainland Russia, will kick off on July 1.
“The opening of normal rail providers ought to have a optimistic impact on provides to the Crimean market, its saturation with high-quality and reasonably priced items,” the president stated.
In December, Putin opened railway visitors on the Crimea Bridge and took a trip within the driver’s cabin on the primary Crimea-bound prepare from Saint-Petersburg.
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Vehicle visitors throughout the bridge, which turned the longest not solely in Russia however in all of Europe, started in Might 2018.
The development of the bridge kicked off in February 2016, lower than two years after the Crimean individuals overwhelmingly voted to reunite with Russia in a referendum. The hyperlink was essential for Crimea, which solely has a land border with Ukraine.
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