OREANDA-NEWS. The new interchange was commissioned in Ryazan at the 182nd kilometre of the "Ural" M-5 Highway at the junction of the local highway and industrial railroad line connecting the Dyagilevo railroad station, the 360th aviation repair plant and the Dyagilevo airfield. The interchange was constructed by Mostotrest professionals under the contract for renovation of the "Ural" M-5 Highway section.

The new tunnel replaced a former rail crossing, improved traffic safety along the renovated section and eliminated traffic jams before the crossing.

The interchange at the entry to Ryazan in the direction coming from Moscow consists of a tunnel, a pedestrian bridge and an overpass. The tunnel has three lanes of traffic in each direction. The tunnel is 94.1 metres long and 34.2 metres wide. An overhead trolley line requires that the tunnel should 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 were built along the ramp area at the entrance to the tunnel in the direction of Ryazan. A single-span pedestrian bridge was built over the M-5 Highway just before the underpass in the direction coming from Moscow. In addition, a more than 8-metre overpass was built over the highway at the point where it intersects with a gas pipeline.

OJSC Mostotrest concluded a government contract for the construction and renovation of the "Ural" M-5 Highway, which included the construction of an interchange at the 182nd kilometre of the highway in Ryazan, in November 2012. The contracting authority is the Federal public institution Federal Highway Administration "Bolshaya Volga" of the Federal Highway Agency (FPI Povolzhupravtodor).

Currently, Mostotrest is erecting the interchange at the 184th kilometre of the "Ural" M-5 Highway, featuring 7 traffic directions for motor transport.

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.