Road-Rail Bridge and Krasnodar Region

Vladimir Putin: Nineteen kilometers long, the dual road-rail bridge is set to connect Crimea with the Krasnodar region, making the disputed peninsula accessible by car and train directly from Russia, according to The Moscow Times. The long-awaited transport miracle is scheduled for completion in 2018. So we are going to build the bridge," says a promotional videoclip on the website devoted to construction of the Kerch bridge. Comparisons with the grandeur of the Baikalo-Amur Mainline, a gigantic construction project from Soviet times, are in line with how President Vladimir Putin sees the new Kerch bridge — something to land him in history textbooks. From the very beginning, the project seemed too expensive, too complicated, too unnecessary, and likely to fail. However, the very ambitiousness of the project has meant it has come accompanied by doubts and debate. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.