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Next year, trains will connect the mainland with the Crimean resorts, TASS reports. According to the head of the Crimean government Yuri Gotsanyuk, trains will be able to travel to all cities of Crimea, where there is a railway connection, by the start of tourist season. The Prime Minister noted that the trains St. Petersburg - Sevastopol and Moscow - Simferopol will run all year round.
The head of the peninsula’s transport department Sergey Karpov added that rail traffic will expand to Yevpatoriya and Feodosiya. Branches extending from the main railway line lead to these cities.
The first train from Moscow has arrived in Simferopol today. The deluxe train Tavria crossed the Crimean bridge. It set off from Kazan Station on the evening of December 24. It took the train thirty-three hours to get to Crimea. In Simferopol, Tavria was met by hundreds of people, they brought flowers and Russian tricolors. Crimeans chanted: "Crimea - Russia - forever!".
The first train passing over the Crimean bridge arrived in the morning of December 25 in Sevastopol.
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reported that President of Russia opened traffic on the railway part of the Crimean bridge on December 23. More than six kilometers of the bridge pass over the water, the rest - over the land bar and the island of Tuzla. The railway is supported by three hundred and seven piers.
The launch of railway communication will turn Crimea into a full year-round resort. And it will be easier for residents of the peninsula to get to the Krasnodar Territory or Rostov-on-Don.
The opening of freight traffic will stabilize prices for various groups of goods as the risks caused by ferry transportation will no longer be relevant.
The construction of the bridge across the Kerch Strait has become an additional incentive for the development of bridge construction in the country. Sophisticated technological solutions found by Russian engineers for the Crimean bridge and successfully implemented in practice is a tremendous experience that can be applied at other construction sites.
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