International Day For Monuments and Sites or World Heritage Day has been held for nearly four decades. Russia is among the countries with the largest number of sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List. However, experts admit that Russia is still underestimated when it comes to its natural and cultural assets that deserve to be on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Austria wants to join Trans Siberian Broad-gauge project
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21.02.2018
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The forum of railway companies representatives from EU and Russia starts today in Vienna. The main agenda is the new Eurasian route that includes construction of the Broad-gauge track from Kosice, Slovakia to Austria, RIA Novosti reports.
Russia, Ukraine, Slovakia, and Austria participate in this project. It is planned to locate a logistical link in Austria if the 400km railroad to be built.
The project was called “Broad-gauge” because the official width of the railroad track in Russia, CIS countries, Baltics, Mongolia and Finland is 1520 mm,while the regular track width in Europe is 1435 mm.
At this moment the the Broad-gauge project is still at the pre-production stage. The developers try to find how to reduce the high costs ($6.5 billion).
The project realization would help Russia to transport the basic streams of cargoes from Asia to Europe, which would save substantial amount of time and money. According to the Austrian ministry, the creation of this railroad would bring 127,000 jobs to Austrians.
Austrian Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology Norbert Hofer is going to introduce the Broad-gauge rail line to the Austrian Council of Ministers. In case of approval Austrian authorities would look more closely into details, including financial issues.
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International Day For Monuments and Sites or World Heritage Day has been held for nearly four decades. Russia is among the countries with the largest number of sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List. However, experts admit that Russia is still underestimated when it comes to its natural and cultural assets that deserve to be on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The Winner of Kamchatka race “Beringia-2022' 17.04.2022
It is easy to recognize Valentin Levkovsky, a Kamchatka dog-team musher, at the start of the most large-scale and prestigious Beringia dog sled race. He wears his grandfather's sheepskin coat. it is the traditional outfit of the Itelmens, the indigenous people of Kamchatka. Levkovsky's dogs pull traditional wooden sleds rather than metal ones, as professionals do. Furthermore, they understand "halch" ("go") and other commands in the Itelmen language.