Russian Railways will thus complete the third part of a high-speed service project.

(Kazan, February 16, Tatar-inform, Nina Narykova). High-speed passenger trains will soon connect Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod. The third part of the Russian Railways’s project on high-speed service will thus be implemented.

The first phase of the project has been completed, the Sapsan high-speed train linking the two capitals, Moscow and Saint-Petersburg. In September, one such train will be launched on the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod route. Later, Kazan will join the project, was a statement at the today's Cabinet of Ministers briefing.

The meeting discussed a concept of the Kazan metro's development. It includes constructing 4 lines of the total length of 62 kilometres, with 28 stations. The projected transportation capacity is over 500 thousand people a day.

Completing the first line of the Kazan metro, 18.46-kilometre-long, with 11 stations, is important for providing efficient service for the Universiade 2013 sporting event’s guests. The first line construction costs 39.3 billion roubles, of which 2 billion is required to purchase 10 extra trains. Journalists were today told that about 2 billion roubles was annually allocated from the Tatarstan’s budget for metro construction. In the near future though, Tatarstan will count on federal funds for the project.
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