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The Russian authorities are deciding on the allocation of a capital grant from the federal budget for the construction of a bridge across the Lena in Yakutia the head of the republic Aisen Nikolaev said during an online conversation on the Skolkovo business school platform RIA-Novosti reports . Today the project is already in the State Expertise. The first part of it is coming out the second will arrive somewhere in the first half of the year. Now the issue of a capital grant from the federal budget is being resolved said Nikolaev.According to him the Ministry of Finance expects that regional financing of the project will increase and private investors will be attracted.Nikolaev emphasized that the whole country needs a bridge across the Lena River. To date the west and east are connected in the Yakutia region by a narrow strip of the Trans-Siberian Railway not far from the Russian-Chinese border. There are no other structures connecting our territory. And if a road appears ... a bridge appears then theoretically by 2030-2035 it will be possible to drive from Irkutsk to Magadan by road. As of today it is not possible yet he said.Earlier it was reported that the construction of a bridge over the Lena River will begin in the spring of 2021. In February 2020 the government of Yakutia and the Eighth Concession Company LLC signed a concession agreement for the construction of the Lensky Bridge. According to the materials of the filed private concession initiative the total amount of project financing is estimated at more than 83 billion rubles. Of these 54.3 billion rubles will be allocated from the budget of Yakutia the funds raised will amount to 28.9 billion rubles. Sberbank opened a credit line for the concessionaire with a limit of 25 billion rubles.The investment project was included in the national development program of the Far East which is planned to be implemented in three stages until 2035.
