OREANDA-NEWS. June 15, 2015. Mostotrest continues the construction of a tunnel at the intersection of Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street and Mikhailovskaya Street. The tunnel will be open for road traffic this year in September. Construction is carried out under a contract from the Moscow City Construction Department, which entails the reconstruction of the stretch of Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street between Priorov Street and Dmitrovskoye Avenue in Koptevo and Timiryazevsky districts in Northern Moscow. Mostotrest specialists started working on the project in the fall of last year.

The six-lane tunnel, which consists of twenty sections, will run through Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street and under the existing tramway on Mikhalkovskaya Street. It will be a part of the two-level traffic interchange at the intersection of Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street and Mikhalkovskaya Street. Currently, nine sections out of twenty have been completed. Construction is carried out 24 hours a day, in several shifts. After construction is complete, the builders will have to implement improvement and landscaping of the adjacent territory.

Mostotrest is implementing unique construction technology in order to complete the project. The tunnel will be equipped with modern soundproof and water shutoff systems. Especially considering that the water level at the Mikhailovsky Ponds located nearby is a few meters above the roadway, waterproof panels have been erected.

The project also entails reconstruction work to widen the driveway of Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street and Nizhnelihoborsky Proezd to six lanes (three in each direction). Mostotrest will also upgrade the adjacent road network, built road arms for local traffic and public transport, as well as two U-turn exits above the tunnel’s enclosed section. In addition, the project entails rearrangement of utilities, construction of 3 pedestrian underpasses and installation of an automated traffic control system.

Noise barriers with a total length of about 2 km will be erected, while soundproof windows will be installed in homes located in close proximity to the reconstruction area. The total length of the Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street segment to be rebuilt is 4.7 km.

The road segment under reconstruction is part of the Northwest through driveway between Skolkovo Avenue and Yaroslavl Avenue, providing a link between the North and the South of Moscow and alleviating traffic congestion the city center.

For Reference

Mostotrest is a major, diversified infrastructure construction company, with established presence in all core and related market segments, and a participant in Russia’s first public-private partnership projects. According to EMBS Group, an independent industry consultancy, in 2014 Mostotrest held a 13.4% share of the total Russian transport infrastructure construction market.

Mostotrest’s core competences include construction and reconstruction of bridges, roads and other transport infrastructure facilities; provision of road maintenance, repair and operating services. In 2012, Mostotrest also entered a new segment: management of road concessions.

The company was established in 1930 as a developer of complex and oversized bridges.

Mostotrest is currently participating in implementation of a number of complex transport infrastructure development projects, such as construction of the Section 4 (km 208 – km 258) and Section 6 (km 334 – km 543) of the M-11 “Moscow – St Petersburg” Toll Highway, construction and reconstruction of the M-4 “Don”, M-9 “Baltic” and M-11 “Narva” highways, construction of Businovskaya Interchange in Moscow, Bor Bridge in Nizhny Novgorod and Voroshilovsky Bridge in Rostov-on-Don.