The halfway point has been passed... Builders of the bridge have finished half of the railway on the Crimean bridge. The construction of a number of complex engineering structures continues unabated. The railroad traffic is scheduled to be launched from Taman to the peninsula this December. The builders promised to do the first train test run this fall.
See Artyom Kol's report.
This is a heavy-tonnage rail layer, the first train on the Crimean bridge. It's moving from the direction of Taman. The construction is on-going day and night. While some workers glue a special film on the base, others lay the rails. After the rail layer, another train loaded with rubble is moving. This way, the special equipment has passed 12 out of 24 miles since last July. This is precisely in the middle. The laying of the railway should be completed by the fall. Despite the strong storms in the Kerch Strait, everything is right on schedule.
Kairat Tursunbekov, head of the construction company: "We've had more than 900 hours of storm, which means that we lost almost 40 days, about a third of the construction time. We can't operate cranes or carry out work at heights during storms".
Weather is monitored by specialists at the Crimean bridge control center. This is the very heart of the country's most important construction site. This is the control center of the Crimean bridge; it sounds like space mission-control center. There's much less information being handled but the data from all the sensors comes here. These people monitor it. In case of an emergency, they should take immediate action.
A train test run will be launched on the Crimean bridge this fall. Then the workers will lay high-voltage wires for electric trains, which will be launched this December. By this time, illumination for the bridge's arches will have been installed, which will show the colors of the Russian flag.
Artyom Kol, Andrey Terentyev, Nikita Kalchenko, Vesti, Crimea.
