15 corridors linking 65 cities, about 25,400 km measured city to city in straight lines (about 30,400 km built, at a route factor of 1.2), with 11 cross-border links and crossings. The Trans-Siberian from Moscow through Nizhny Novgorod, Perm and Yekaterinburg to Vladivostok, the Moscow–Kazan–Yekaterinburg line, the Baikal–Amur line, the Amur–Yakutsk line extended as the Bering line to Uelen, the line to Sakhalin, the northern lines to Arkhangelsk, Murmansk and Novy Urengoy, and the Volga line to the Caspian, with links to Finland, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Mongolia and China, and sea crossings to the Americas and to Japan.
The Network Concept
The corridors.
Each corridor is listed below in order of its cities.
MMC Russia network concept, schematic. Dark lines are corridors; grey lines are neighbouring corridors; gold lines are cross-border links; blue dashed lines are sea crossings; gold dashed lines are mountain tunnels; the wide gold band marks the spines. Routes are indicative.
Routes are indicative. Corridors are drawn city to city, through the cities on the existing railway wherever a line exists: MMC corridors follow those lines, upgrading the line or running above it on viaduct. Where no line exists, the corridor is new build. Final alignments are set at detailed design by terrain survey, geotechnical analysis, environmental and cultural heritage assessment, and agreement between the nations they connect.
The MMC platform is available to any nation building to the standard. If your government, agency, or capital partner could initiate a project in Russia: Make contact.
