The Accounts Chamber proposed to abandon the route in Primorye for ₽300 billion

The Accounts Chamber suggested that the government abandon the construction of the second section of the Vladivostok - Nakhodka - Vostochny port, the cost of which is estimated at 309 billion rubles. This follows from the report of the department on checking the financing of the facility, which RBC has read. Instead, the auditors proposed to reconstruct the existing highway A-188 Artem - Nakhodka - Vostochny port.

The Ministry of Transport and the Federal Highway Agency (Rosavtodor) should consider the issue of a possible alternative by June 1 on behalf of the government, the auditors suggest. But the report of the Accounts Chamber does not indicate how much the reconstruction could cost. Only a design institute can make such an assessment, RBC was told in the press service of the department.

RBC sent inquiries to the press services of the government, the Ministry of Transport, Rosavtodor and the representative of Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin (who oversees construction).

What is known about the project

The construction of the Vladivostok - Nakhodka - Vostochny port is called the "construction of the decade" (total length - 143 km) - the road should become part of the Primorye-1 transport corridor, which connects the ports of Primorye with CHINA. The length of the Primorye-1 project is estimated at 700 km, taking into account the railway tracks and passing through the territory of China . The first section of the route from Vladivostok to the port of Vostochny from the 18th to the 40th kilometer is currently being built by Transstroymekhanizatsiya. it was part of Arkady Rotenberg's Mostotrest, and since 2020 it has become part of the Natsproektstroy group of companies of Rotenberg and VEB.