Overview
- Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev reaffirmed a 2045 target for roughly 4,500 km of dedicated high‑speed lines operating about 300 trains.
- RZD detailed routes and phasing, including a staged Moscow–Nizhny Novgorod–Kazan line extended to Yekaterinburg, a 1,500 km Moscow–Adler corridor, a 205 km Moscow–Ryazan link, and the 715 km Moscow–Minsk “Soyuz” line.
- Design for the Moscow–Kazan segment is complete with engineering surveys underway across the corridor, and 16 transport hubs are planned along that route.
- On the Moscow–St. Petersburg pilot, active construction is focused on stages 6–7 in the Tver and Moscow regions, supported by new robotized slab plants in Novgorod and Tver, 14 pile factories, 10 bridge yards, and plans for 239 bridges and viaducts spanning 180 km including a 14 km structure near St. Petersburg.
- The pilot line is planned to open in 2028 with trains up to 400 km/h and an expected Moscow–St. Petersburg journey of roughly 2 to 2 hours 15 minutes, with regional authorities like Novgorod preparing for increased tourism and investment.