OREANDA-NEWS. Mostotrest will carry out a set of construction and reconstruction work on M-5 "Ural" Highway linking Moscow with Chelyabinsk via Ryazan, Penza, Samara and Ufa (km 241+000 - km 245+595 section in the Ryazan region). The project will be implemented under a contract from the Federal Road Agency Volga Region Road Management Directorate (PKU Povolzhupravtodor). Contract value: RUB1.387 billion. Scheduled completion: September 2017.

As part of the project, Mostotrest will undertake multi-stage reconstruction of the Pronya River Bridge, including upgrade of the existing bridge (231.24 m), takedown of the decommissioned obsolete bridge built in 1956 (198.3 m) and construction of a new bridge (231.72 m). In addition, the project envisions widening and upgrade in line with the current requirements of the km 241 - km 245 section of M-5 Highway.

When completed, the highway section will contain 2 two-lane bridges with one-way traffic in each direction (Ryazan- and Penza-bound). In terms of its technical characteristics, the reconstructed road will be Category IB. Design speed: 120 km/h. The project will double the capacity of bridges over the Pronya River and improve safety of the km 241+000 - km 245+595 section of M-5 "Ural" Highway.

All construction work will be done in accordance with the established nature management and environmental protection standards.

M-5 "Ural" Highway (Novoryazanskoye Highway) is the federal highway linking Moscow with Chelyabinsk via Ryazan, Penza, Samara and Ufa, and is one of the country's oldest. With a total length of 1,879 km, the highway is part of the European Route Network E30 and the Asian Route AH6.

With a total length of 5,172 m, the road section to be upgraded runs through the Spassky District of the Ryazan Region (km 241+000 - km 245+595), and is part of M-5 "Ural" Highway between Ryazan and Penza. The bridge to be taken down was built in 1956-1959. With the commissioning of a new parallel bridge on the site in 1998, the obsolete bridge was definitively closed to traffic.

Mostotrest is a major, diversified infrastructure construction company, with established presence in all core and related market segments, and a participant in Russia's first public-private partnership projects. According to EMBS Group, an independent industry consultancy, in 2013 Mostotrest held a 9.9% share of the total Russian infrastructure construction market.

Mostotrest's core competences include construction and reconstruction of bridges, roads and other transport infrastructure facilities; provision of road maintenance, repair and operating services. In 2012, Mostotrest also entered a new segment: management of road concessions.

The company was established in 1930 as a developer of complex and oversized bridges.

Mostotrest is currently participating in implementation of a number of complex transport infrastructure development projects, such as construction of the head segment (km 15- km 58) and the Vyshny Volochok bypass segment of the M-11“Moscow-St Petersburg” Toll Highway, construction and reconstruction of the M-4 “Don” and M-9 “Baltia” Highways, reconstruction of Mozhaisky Avenue/Kutuzovsky Avenue between the Moscow Ring Road and the Garden Ring; construction of the Businovskaya interchange in Moscow, the Volga Bridge in Nizhny Novgorod and the Voroshilovsky Bridge in Rostov-on-Don.