OREANDA-NEWS. December 3, 2012. OJSC Mostotrest has concluded a government contract for the construction and renovation of the “Ural” M-5 Highway, which includes the construction of an interchange at the 182nd kilometre of the highway in Ryazan.

The contracting authority is the Federal public institution Federal Highway Administration “Bolshaya Volga” of the Federal Highway Agency (FPI Povolzhupravtodor). The total contract price is 1.96 billion roubles (including VAT). All construction work is to be completed in November 2015.

Under the contract, a six-lane section of the highway with total length of 1.3 km will be built in Ryazan (Category I road with a design speed of 100 km/h). The project features the construction of a tunnel for the split-level junction of the highway with the existing railroad line at the 182nd km of the M-5 Highway.

The tunnel with length of 94.1 metres and width of 34.2 metres will have three lanes of traffic in each direction. An overhead trolley line requires that the tunnel have height of 5 metres at the axis and 5.55 metres along the edge of the highway. Small side lanes for public transport to make stops as well as pedestrian stairways will be built along the ramp area at the entrance to the tunnel in the direction of Ryazan. A single-span pedestrian bridge will be built over the M-5 Highway just before the underpass in the direction coming from Moscow. In addition, a more than 8-metre overpass will be built over the highway at the point where it intersects with a gas pipeline.

The new underpass will ensure that traffic flows smoothly at the junction of the local highway and railroad line running from the aviation repair plant at the Dyagilevo airfield as well as improve safety along the renovated section of the “Ural” M-5 Highway.

The “Ural” M-5 Highway, one of the country’s oldest roads, is a federal highway connecting Moscow, Ryazan, Penza, Samara, Ufa and Chelyabinsk with length of 2,068 kilometres. The section from Moscow to Ryazan was renovated for automobile traffic in the early 1930s. The highway was then extended to Kuybyshev in 1946-1947, and the section to Chelyabinsk opened in 1965.

Mostotrest (including LLC Corporation Engtransstroy and LLC TRANSSTROYMEKHANISATSIYA) is the largest diversified infrastructure and bridge-building company in Russia. According to EMBS Group, the independent industry consultancy, Mostotrest had an 8.6% share of the total Russian infrastructure construction market in 2011 (excluding road maintenance and rehabilitation). Mostotrest’s core competences include construction and rehabilitation of automobile, railway and urban bridges, automobile roads and other transport infrastructure.

The company was established in 1930 as a developer of complex and oversized bridges, and has built and rehabilitated more than 7,500 infrastructure projects (bridges, flyovers, tunnels and interchanges) to date.

Mostotrest is currently implementing major infrastructure development projects across Russia, including transport infrastructure for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Enthusiasts Avenue traffic interchange in Moscow, as well as infrastructure projects along M-4 Don, M-7 Volga and other highways.