OREANDA-NEWS  The project to build a bridge across the Lena River in Yakutia has fallen in price by several tens of billions of rubles. Now it is estimated at 130 billion. This is reported by RBC with reference to the head of Yakutia Aisen Nikolaev.

Before that, the cost of the project reached 176 billion rubles, but now it has decreased by 46 billion. The Minister of Transport and Road Management of Yakutia, Vladimir Sivtsev, explained that the project was revised on behalf of Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, who oversees the construction.

"First of all, we have reviewed all decisions related to access roads. That is, there were, as we later found out in the course of work, still inflated estimates for embankments, width, and so on,"— said Nikolaev.

In September 2022, it became known that the cost of the project to build a bridge across the Lena River in Yakutia doubled to 176 billion rubles. Then the specified amount appeared in the project sent for consideration to the Glavgosexpertiza by the government of the region.