The existing route “Kerch - Feodosia - Simferopol - Bakhchisarai - Sevastopol” in the Republic of Crimea is a two-lane road with a worn-out surface. It is unlikely to be able to accommodate the large flow of traffic that will travel to the peninsula via the Kerch Bridge in December 2018. Therefore, the Tavrida highway project appeared, which includes both the reconstruction of the existing road and the construction of new sections on the route from Kerch to Sevastopol.
Project history
Prepare a project for the “Tavrida” route from Kerch through Feodosia, Belogorsk, Simferopol, Bakhchisarai to Sevastopol and begin construction work in 2015. At the same time, it was known that some of the plots would be reconstructed, and some would be built anew. Initially, the road was estimated at 45 billion rubles; in 2016, this figure increased to 85 billion rubles, and then to 118 billion and 128 billion rubles. The cost did not stop at this level, and construction of the route began a couple of years later.
The approved design solutions for Tavrida were published by the Ministry of Transport of Crimea at the end of 2016. Then it became known that the route would pass through the territory of Leninsky, Feodosia, Kirov, Belogorsk, Simferopol, Bakhchisaray districts, as well as through the territory of the cities of Sudak, Simferopol, Bakhchisaray. About 23 more kilometers will be built on the territory of Sevastopol (7th stage). Reconstruction of 124.8 km and new construction of 123.3 km are envisaged. Along its entire length, the highway will have 4 lanes, a dividing strip, and the estimated speed will be 120 km/h. Technical category - 1B.
The route, with a total length of about 250 km, will include 20 transport interchanges, 123 overpasses, 15 bridges, 31 overpasses for the passage of agricultural machinery, 17 overpasses from transport interchanges.
At the end of 2016, the State Council of Crimea adopted a bill according to which it was allowed to begin construction of the Tavrida highway before the project passed the inspection of Glavgosexpertiza. This decision was made to optimize the timing of the project and its commissioning, as well as to carry out construction work as efficiently as possible. As a result, construction of the road was given on May 12, 2017. The only contractor for the construction of the Tavrida highway was determined by the Government of the Russian Federation to be the company JSC VAD.
“The timing of the construction of the route will be associated with the pace of construction of the transport crossing across the Kerch Strait, and next year the first stage of construction of this road to Simferopol will be put into operation. Two new lanes will ensure all traffic flows,” Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said then.
The Tavrida highway project passed the Glavgosexpertiza on October 3, 2017, but it was initially planned that the experts would make their decision by the end of August, after which the deadline would be repeated several times. According to the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the cost of the route during the examination decreased by 2 billion rubles and amounted to 166 billion rubles, but the amount for purchases is less.
Construction stages
Even before the Tavrida highway project was ready, it was decided to divide the construction into several stages in order to speed up the pace of work. As a result, the road was divided into 7 stages, while the final stage, Sevastopol, became a little separate, even the contract for it will be concluded separately.
The first 6 stages look like this:
Stage 1 - 70.8 km (the beginning of the section in the area of the transport interchange of approaches to the Kerch Bridge, the end - in the area of the village of Primorsky);
Stage 2 - 50 km (the beginning of the section along a new direction in the area of the village of Primorsky, the end - exit to the Belogorsk - Lgovskoye road in the area of the village of Lgovskoye);
Stage 3 - 35.6 km (from the exit to the Belogorsk - Lgovskoye road to the exit to the Simferopol - Feodosiya road in the Belogorsk area);
Stage 4 - 27.5 km (from the exit to the Simferopol - Feodosia road to the bypass of Simferopol);
Stage 5 - 24.7 km (from the bypass of Simferopol to the exit to the Simferopol - Bakhchisaray - Sevastopol road in the Levadka area);
Stage 6 - 28.9 km (from the exit to the Simferopol - Bakhchisaray - Sevastopol highway in the area of the village of Levadki to the border of the Bakhchisaray district).
Sections of the 1st, 4th and 6th stages are reconstruction of the existing route. Two new lanes will be built parallel to the existing road. Then the transport will be transferred to the new half of the road, and the old half will be renovated.
Stages No. 2 and No. 3 are a bypass of the cities of Feodosia, Stary Krym and Belogorsk, new construction is provided here. Stage No. 5 - bypassing Simferopol, here the road will also be rebuilt.
Of the large artificial structures on the route, an example is the bridge over the Alma River at stage 6. Its length will be 198.4 m, the spans will be steel-reinforced concrete. At the border of the 4th and 5th stages (189th km), a large transport interchange with 11 exits will be built, the total length of which is 5.5 km. In total, within the framework of the 1st stage of “Tavrida” there are 3 interchanges: at the 13th, 52nd and 76th km. At the 2nd stage, 2 interchanges will be built: at the 89th km (intersection with the Feodosiya - Dzhankoy highway) and at the 125th km, at the 3rd stage - at the 154th km (intersection with the Belogorsk - Nizhnegorsky highway), as well as at border with the 4th stage (161st km). At the fourth stage, two interchanges will appear: at km 176 and km 180. Largest quantity interchanges are concentrated on the 5th and 6th stages: at 189 km, 201 km, 216 km, 219 km, 229 km, 233 km, 242 km and 251 -m km.
"Sevastopol" stage of the "Tavrida" track
The city government is responsible for the 7th stage of the Tavrida highway, which will pass through the territory of Sevastopol. Its length changed several times: sometimes it was 23 km, sometimes 16 km (from the 253rd km to the 269th km). According to the Department of Transport and Development of Road Transport Infrastructure of Sevastopol, the actual length of the section will be 13.25 km.
It will run from the border with the Bakhchisaray district along the Simferopol - Bakhchisaray - Sevastopol highway to the 17th km of the Sevastopol - Inkerman highway (Presidential Road). The section of the route will pass in a new direction, without affecting residential and outbuildings, partly along agricultural lands (vineyards) in the area of the village. Verkhnesadovy.
The Sevastopol section of the Tavrida, like the entire route, will have technical category 1B. There will be four lanes of traffic with a dividing strip 2.75 m wide. The project provides for the construction of two overpasses and one bridge: an overpass over the existing road Verkhnesadovoye - Frontovoye - Krasny Mak, an overpass at exit No. 2 of the transport interchange at PK 6+31 and a bridge over the river Belbek and railways. In the place where the project route leaves the existing Simferopol - Bakhchisarai - Sevastopol road to a new direction, it is planned to construct a transport interchange on two levels. The traffic interchange is classified as a “Pipe” type junction.
“On sections of the road where excavation of more than 16 m is planned, engineering protection is carried out against dangerous geological processes, which is represented by retaining walls on a pile foundation, reinforced with anchor piles. Slab-anchoring and soil erosion protection are provided on the slopes. Surface water is diverted outside the structures through trays and upland ditches,” the Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development of Sevastopol told the DorInfo portal.
Currently, preparatory work is underway on the Sevastopol section of the route. Work is planned on the installation of small artificial structures - culverts of metal corrugated pipes under the embankment of the designed transport interchange.
In general, construction work is being carried out along the entire length of the Tavrida highway. According to the head of the construction department of JSC VAD in Crimea, Andrey Lazorsky, most of the work has now been completed at the 1st stage of construction of the route. Here, asphalt concrete pavement is laid for 8 kilometers. In total, there are 18 km of asphalt concrete on the section from Kerch to Belogorsk. By the end of 2017, the area of paved pavement should be about 700 thousand square meters. meters.
The contract for the construction of six stages of the route was concluded with the VAD company on November 21, 2017. The contract value is 137.3 billion rubles. The contract for the construction of the seventh stage is still at the signing stage. The cost of the section will be 12.8 billion rubles, and the total price of the road will be about 150 billion rubles. The two-lane version of Tavrida should open at the end of 2018, and the 4-lane version in 2020. Full commissioning of the facility is scheduled for December 30, 2020.
Daria Kiltsova
Photo: Ministry of Transport of Crimea
Official information from the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation. In connection with the plans of the builders of the Crimean Bridge to put the road part of the Crimean Bridge into operation significantly ahead of schedule, in May 2018, the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation is considering a phased scheme for organizing traffic along the new route across the Kerch Strait.
Joint Stock Company "VAD" began construction of a highway and road access in Kerch to the transport crossing across the Kerch Strait on February 22, 2017. A year later, the overall readiness of the automated approach is 77%.
Last year, Sergei Valerievich Aksenov, the head of the Republic of Crimea, and Roman Vladimirovich Starovoyt, the head of Rosavtodor, laid a stone that marked the start of construction work on the Crimean part of the road approaches to the bridge across the Kerch Strait.
Kerchan resident Konstantin Khodakovsky continues to film the grandiose construction taking place in the city using a controlled drone.
Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov inspected the progress of projects connecting Kuban and Crimea into a single road network via the Crimean Bridge. The route of the head of the Ministry of Transport practically corresponded to the one by which in 2018 it will be possible to travel by car from Anapa to Simferopol.
Employees of the VAD company, which is building the Tavrida highway, presented at the multimedia exhibition “Russia, looking to the future” Hi-tech, along which the Crimean road is being built. According to experts, the most modern technologies are used both for the manufacture of the highway surface itself and for equipping road equipment. Kryminform correspondents visited one of the Tavrida sections to see how the new highway is actually being built in Crimea.
Simferopol, November 16. Kryminform. Builders laid the top layers of asphalt on 18 km of the Tavrida highway in the section from Kerch to Belogorsk. Kryminform was informed about this today by the VAD company, which is the contractor for the construction of the route.
Opening of vehicular traffic in working mode and the beginning of temporary operation of auto approaches to Crimean bridge from Kerch must occur before May 30, 2018. This is stated in the addition to the order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated October 5, 2017 No. 2164-r, Kryminform reports.
The Tavrida builders erected two lanes of the road and marked them. The strip of the future highway beyond the Solnechny microdistrict is expanding. One after another, the supports of the overpass are growing. Cameras are monitoring the construction site solar powered. Kerch men went to work for VAD and in the family circle proudly announce the size of their salaries. Every day brings the moment of commissioning of the bridge across the Kerch Strait closer. Life is in full swing. Not far from the territory where a highway interchange is being built, along which tourists will
Route "Tavrida". Kerch interchange 9 kilometer from a quadcopter
The quiet and measured life of a semi-resort town in the very east of the Crimean peninsula has changed a lot after the start of a grandiose construction project. Kerch Bridge Even at the development stage it became a legendary project. Kerchan residents watch this construction project from different points of the city with surprise and pleasure, listening at night to the booming sounds of pile driving and the rhythmic squeak of construction equipment.
As part of the creation of green zones along the Tavrida federal highway under construction in Crimea, it is planned to plant more than 322 thousand trees. This was stated by First Deputy Minister of Transport of the Republic of Kazakhstan Sergei Semenov during the IV Crimean Transport Forum, which opened in Alushta.
Novosibirsk construction company Sibavtoban laid two lower layers of asphalt on a kilometer-long section of the Dubki-Levadki highway under construction, which will become part of the Simferopol bypass. He told reporters about this today CEO“Sibavtobahn” Andrey Morotsky.
Dump trucks, excavators and other heavy equipment are working non-stop at Verkhny Solnechny. The workers clearly demarcated the territory where the main stage of construction will take place. There is also a machine for driving piles on site, which will soon be used for its intended purpose.
In Crimea, on June 27, traffic opened on the second section of the Tavrida federal highway, which will connect the Kerch Bridge, Simferopol and Sevastopol.
On Wednesday, in the Belogorsk area, traffic will be diverted from a section of the old Kerch-Feodosia-Simferopol highway to a six-kilometer section of the new Tavrida highway, he said. Chairman of the State Road Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan Sergey Karpov.
He clarified that the technical diversion of traffic is carried out by the general contractor as part of the contract. This is being done so that road workers have the opportunity to begin the second stage of construction of the route.
The first 6.5-kilometer section of the route was opened for travel in May 2018, simultaneously with the launch of traffic on the Crimean Bridge.
It is planned that traffic on two lanes of the Tavrida from Kerch to Simferopol will open in December 2018. Commissioning of all four lanes of the road to Sevastopol is scheduled for December 2020.
On the Tavrida it will be possible to accelerate to 120 kilometers per hour.
Let us remind you that the road is being built around the clock. More than 1 thousand units of special equipment and more than 3 thousand people work. About 50% of employees are Crimeans, the rest are residents of other regions of the Russian Federation.
Asphalt concrete is produced for the construction of the highway in Crimea. Asphalt concrete plants were opened in different areas of the peninsula next to the construction site. Asphalt plant "Kerch" was put into operation in June 2017. The Batalnoe asphalt plant was launched next - it began operating in September, the Tsvetochnoe asphalt plant began operating in October, followed by the Stary Krym asphalt plant in November. Another plant was put into operation in May 2018.
Length of the route – 237.5 kilometers
Travel speed – 120 kilometers per hour
Number of lanes – 4
Lane width – 3.5 meters
The smallest width of the dividing lane is 2.75 meters
Curb width – 3.5 meters
Number of transport interchanges – 17
Number of bridges and overpasses – 90
Number of above-ground pedestrian crossings – 30
CONSTRUCTION STAGES
Stage 1 (70.8 km) km 0+000 – km 76+000 (beginning of the section in a new direction near the village of Primorsky).
Stage 2 (50 km) km 76+000 (beginning of the section along a new direction in the area of the village of Primorsky) – km 126+000 (exit to the Belogorsk – Lgovskoye highway in the area of the village of Lgovskoye).
Stage 3 (35.6 km) km 126+000 (exit to the Belogorsk – Lgovskoye highway) – 161+000 (exit to the Simferopol – Feodosiya highway in the Belogorsk region).
Stage 4 (27.5 km) km 161+000 (exit to the Simferopol – Feodosia highway in the Belogorsk region) – 190+000.
Stage 5 (24.7 km) km 190+000 – km 224+000 (exit to the Simferopol – Bakhchisaray – Sevastopol highway near the village of Levadki).
Stage 6 (29.5 km) km 224+000 (exit to the Simferopol – Bakhchisaray – Sevastopol highway near the village of Levadki) + km 253+500 (border of the Bakhchisaray district).
Construction of the Tavrida highway is going according to schedule. Road workers organized work both on the road approach to the Crimean Bridge and on the Tavrida highway around the clock, seven days a week.
The Tavrida highway will connect Kerch, where the bridge across the strait was built, with Simferopol and Sevastopol. Total length routes - 250.7 kilometers, throughput- up to 40,000 cars per day. The general contractor is JSC VAD. The total cost of construction of Tavrida is set at 149.3 billion rubles.
Construction is divided into 7 stages, six of which are located on the territory of the Republic of Crimea, and the seventh in Sevastopol. The project is being implemented simultaneously in all seven stages and is divided into two stages: in a two-lane design from Kerch to Simferopol (first - fourth stages - 190 km), traffic on the highway is planned to be launched at the end of 2018; Four-lane traffic along the entire highway to Sevastopol will open at the end of 2020.
At the first stageof the 70.8 km long highway under construction, work is currently underway to construct an embankment for the main passage, reconstruct engineering communications, install metal-corrugated culverts, install a layer of geotextiles and a crushed stone base for the road pavement.
Work on the installation of bridges and tunnel-type overpasses is actively underway. 24 km of the two-lane highway have been paved. The overall stage readiness is 36%.
At the second stage of the Tavrida route with a total length of 50 km, 13.5 km are paved in a two-lane design. Currently, excavation work, reconstruction of utility lines, and construction of bridges and overpasses are underway at the site. The overall readiness of the stage is 27%.
At the third stage of the route with a length of 35.6 km, work is underway on the installation of storm drainage, roadbed and crushed stone foundation, as well as, as in the previous two stages, the laying of utilities, the construction of bridges and overpasses. At the same time, 10 km were paved in a two-lane design. The overall readiness of this site is 35%.
General readiness of the fourth stage of "Tavrida"(length 27.5 km) - 10%. The same types of work are carried out here as in the third stage. 5.3 km of two-lane paved road.
At the fifth stage highways, the general contractor for the construction of the Simferopol bypass on the Dubki-Levadki section - the Sibavtoban group of companies continues to improve the future highway along the main route. The installation of metal lighting supports for single-arm and double-arm lamp brackets has begun. In total, it is planned to install more than 300 supports for 555 lamps along the route. IN this moment The general contractor installed more than 50 support pillars.
On the Simferopol-Chistenkoe–Trudolyubovo-Nikolaevka highway, road workers have begun forming road approaches to the bridge: filling and strengthening the cones, compacting the subgrade and forming the main road pavement are being carried out. Previously, 12 reinforced concrete overpass beams were installed, each weighing 55 tons and 33 meters long. The length of the two-lane bridge is 73 m (including approaches). The height above the level of the main passage of the Dubki – Levadki highway is 5 meters.
Road workers continue to develop the excavation and embankment of the future highway. The total volume of earthworks performed is about 2.8 million m³. Along the main course of the highway under construction, a subgrade is being formed, a water conduit and a cattle passage are being installed.
At the sixth stage of the route in the area of the Sevastopol transport interchangeSibavtoban is drilling for the installation of bored pillars for the future overpass: 70% of the total volume has been completed. The excavation for the construction of the interchange overpass continues. On temporary road The general contractor is cleaning the route and de-icing it. The transport interchange will be completed in July 2018.
The construction of the Simferopol bypass on the Dubki-Levadki section has been underway since the end of 2016; road workers began the active phase of work in the spring of 2017. The facility will be commissioned at the end of August this year.
At the beginning of December 2017, the official opening of work on the construction and reconstruction of the Kerch – Feodosia – Belogorsk – Simferopol – Bakhchisarai – Sevastopol highway, km 253+500 – km 269+300, Sevastopol took place. The new road isseventh stage of constructionand reconstruction of the Tavrida highway.
The new section of the Tavrida highway will pass through the territory of Sevastopol: from km 40+578 of the existing highway N-06 Simferopol - Bakhchisaray - Sevastopol to km 16+320 of the highway R-27 Sevastopol - Inkerman past the villages of Verkhnesadovoe, Pirogovka and Frontovoye.
Currently, as part of the project, the clearing of the right-of-way from forests and shrubs, the construction of a subgrade, the installation of culverts, the construction of temporary warehouses and modular buildings are being carried out. Road construction work is preceded by inspection and clearance of the area from explosive objects, as well as archaeological research. In 2018, the general contractor plans to completely clear the right-of-way of the seventh section of the route from green spaces, complete archaeological work, fill the roadbed and begin construction of bridge structures. Construction of the facility is scheduled to be completed in 2020.
In total, more than 800 pieces of equipment and more than two thousand people from among workers and engineering personnel are currently involved in seven stages. Work traffic on the road approaches to the bridge across the Kerch Strait is planned to open in April 2018 and complete work in full in December.
Construction of the eighth section of Tavrida(projected), which will begin in 2019, provides for the reconstruction of the “presidential” road and the construction of a two-level interchange on the Yalta ring. After completion of the technical and price audit (sent to Glavgosexpertiza), design and estimate documentation for the facility will be developed. The total length of the eighth section of the route will be 6.5 km.
Automobile approach to the Crimean Bridge from Kerchwith a length of 8.6 km is in a high degree of readiness: 7 kilometers of asphalt concrete in a four-lane design have been laid during the main course. All work on the construction of the auto approach is carried out in strict accordance with the approved schedule.
7 kilometers of four-lane asphalt concrete were laid on the approaches out of 8.6 kilometers provided for by the project. The construction of the roadbed embankment for the auto-access road has already been completed by more than 93%. The top layer of the base is 84% complete, the bottom layer of the coating is 80%. The installation of culverts at the site is fully completed, and 2/3 of the rainwater drainage system is completed.
The auto approach to the Crimean Bridge from Kerch includes one traffic intersection and three overpasses, one of which is a tunnel type:
At the traffic intersection, the construction of the roadbed and crushed stone base is almost completed - their readiness exceeds 90%. The top layer of the base made of asphalt concrete mixture is already 96% complete. In addition, work on the installation of culverts has been completed;
The overpass, located at the intersection of the auto approach with the Heroes of Stalingrad Highway, is 56% ready, the construction of the embankment of the roadbed has been completed at more than 90%, the water supply, sewerage and power supply lines have also been rebuilt by more than 90%, and the builders have completed more than half all work on the installation of external lighting, and also completely re-arranged the communication networks;
A memorial stone was laid in Crimea, symbolizing the beginning of the construction of the Tavrida highway. Construction and reconstruction work will begin in the summer of 2017 simultaneously along almost the entire length of the route, the press service of Rosavtodor told Gazeta.Ru.
As stated by the Minister of Transport of Russia, the timing of the construction of the route will be associated with the pace of construction of the transport crossing across the Kerch Strait and next year the first stage of construction of this road to Simferopol will be put into operation. In December 2018, it is planned to complete the construction of two lanes and open traffic.
Completion of the entire complex of construction work is scheduled for December 2020.
According to Maxim Sokolov, the construction of the Tavrida highway will not exceed 140 billion rubles in 2016 prices.
Let us recall that in 2016, the head of Crimea Sergei Aksenov said that the cost of the four-lane Tavrida highway across the entire peninsula would be about 85 billion rubles. In subsequent statements by Aksenov, the cost of the route increased by 43 billion rubles - to 128 billion. And in the summer of 2016, the Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea announced 139 billion needed for Tavrida. Later, these figures were confirmed by the head of Crimea himself.
Most of the required amount, about 100 billion rubles, will be allocated. Earlier, when assessing the amount allocated to Crimea, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called it more than significant.
“We have found the necessary funding for the construction of the road in full,” Medvedev said. — The amount of more than 100 billion rubles is such that it requires the most careful attention. The maximum price of the road and already determined parameters are not subject to adjustment.”
Emphasizing the significance of the allocated amount, Medvedev demanded that the Crimean leadership personally monitor the progress of road construction on the peninsula and their quality, and in case of serious problems, immediately report it to.
“You just need to control what’s happening yourself,” said Medvedev, who himself regularly gets behind the wheel during business trips. “There’s nothing complicated about getting behind the wheel yourself, driving along a new road in a few months, and seeing what condition it’s in.” If it remains in good condition, it means that the contractor must receive 100% of what he is entitled to under the contract.
And if it swells somewhere or, on the contrary, fails, then you need to slap it on the wrist and force it to be redone. If it’s something completely boorish, then send all the materials to law enforcement agencies.”
In order to prevent “theft, which, unfortunately, also happens,” Medvedev demanded that he be informed of how efficiently and timely the allocated funds are spent.
The Tavrida highway will connect Kerch, where a bridge will be built across the Kerch Strait, with Simferopol and Sevastopol.
This will be a four-lane road of the first technical category with a length of 237.5 km with an estimated speed of up to 120 km/h. Its capacity should reach 43 thousand cars per day.
The route will pass through the territory of Crimea from east to west along the route Kerch - Feodosia - Belogorsk - Simferopol - Bakhchisaray - Sevastopol and will become the basis of the peninsula's road network. The Tavrida highway will partially coincide with the existing road, but a significant section will be built outside the Simferopol-Feodosia highway.
So, from Kerch the road will pass near the villages of Batalnoye and Lugovoye, then it will go to Vladislavovka, where builders will build a road in the Kirov and Belogorsky districts. New highway will provide transport links between Simferopol and the western regions and territory Krasnodar region and will relieve congestion on the street network settlements from the movement of heavy-duty and transit transport.
Along the entire length of the route, it is planned to build 17 transport interchanges and 90 artificial structures - bridges and overpasses. Currently, as part of the preparation of the territory for construction, storage and technological sites have been equipped and access roads have been laid. The territory is being inspected for the presence of explosive objects, and the top soil and plant layer is being removed.
