Recently, the Kremlin has issued a heavy signal - Putin has officially approved the preliminary research and demonstration of the Moscow Minsk high-speed railway. This is not only a transportation milestone in the process of Russia Belarus integration, but also means that a cross-border high-speed railway with a designed speed of 400 kilometers per hour and a total length of 715 kilometers is about to move from blueprint to reality. It will compress the travel time between the two capitals to 3 hours and lay the groundwork for the upgrade of passenger transportation on the Eurasian Continental Bridge.

Lock in the 715 kilometer cross-border new line

The project is planned to start from Moscow, pass through the Russia Belarus border and reach Minsk directly, with a total length of about 715 kilometers. The maximum operating speed of the train is set at 400 kilometers per hour, and after completion, it will significantly replace the existing mixed passenger and freight mode of conventional railways. At present, the Russian transportation department has started geological exploration and technical and economic comparison, confirming that this line is the primary international high-speed railway extension direction after the Moscow St. Petersburg high-speed railway.

The Eurasian Development Bank provides a blood transfusion for it

Russia and Belarus have reached a consensus on joint promotion and plan to introduce diversified funds such as the Eurasian Development Bank for financing. If the preliminary survey and design go smoothly, the financing plan and specific implementation roadmap are expected to be finalized between 2028 and 2029, and then enter the substantive bidding and construction stage, forming a synergistic effect with the Moscow St. Petersburg high-speed railway under construction in Russia. Keywords: the Belt and Road news, high-speed railway

Remodeling the north wing channel of the Belt and Road

In the future, this high-speed railway can echo the expanding China Central Asia Russia railway network from afar, and become an important passenger speed increase option on the northern wing of the Belt and Road. With the gradual formation of the Eurasian high-speed passenger transport corridor, it will not only drive the demand for infrastructure equipment along the route, but also provide a potential entry point for China's high-speed rail design, signal and engineering forces to participate in the subsequent technical standard docking.Editor/Gao Xue