The president opened the railway traffic on the Crimean bridge
Russian President Vladimir Putin has opened railway traffic on the Crimean bridge. Recall that earlier, Putin took part in the opening of the automobile part of the bridge connecting the Kuban with the Crimean peninsula.
By tradition, the president decided to go over the bridge not as a passenger, but as a transport manager - this time as an assistant locomotive driver.
The train went from Taman station to Kerch. After that, the president went into a carriage in which a group of workers were involved in the construction of the railway part of the Crimean bridge.
Also, in the mode of a television bridge, the Russian president took part in the ceremony of departure of the train from the Moscow railway station of St. Petersburg to Sevastopol. The train that leaves today will arrive at its destination around 9:25 on December 25th. The total travel time will be 43 hours 25 minutes. There are more than 600 passengers in the cars of the first train departing for Crimea with a route through the Crimean bridge.
Attention was drawn to the fact that in the cab of the locomotive there was no head of Russian Railways.
It is noted that at first only passenger trains will cross the bridge, and then freight traffic by rail will begin.
According to the Russian president, in 2020, approximately 13 million tons of cargo will be transported across the bridge and at least 14 million people will pass.
Recall that two years ago in Ukraine they stated that it was "impossible" to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait.
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