Russia's Sakhalin Governor Valery Limarenko said that Russia plans to build a 6-kilometer bridge on the island of Sakhalin as part of a plan to revitalize the Far East.

Limarenko told a local television station that the project would cost $ 8.5 billion to $ 10 billion and that it would be completed sometime during the first half of the 1930s. Limarenko sees a deadline of 2035, although some optimists believe it will be completed by 2030. "Russian Railways has begun preliminary work on the project.

The bridge across the Nevskoy Strait will provide Russia with an overland route to the Sakhalin Korsakov seaport and Khomsk, whether it is Russian oil and gas, or European cargo transported across the Trans-Asian Railway Can be transported by this land route. This will also improve communication with Japan.

In addition to bridges, Russia also plans to build about 580 kilometers of railways and modernize existing infrastructure.

In 2017, Russian President Putin stated at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok that Russia plans to build a 45-kilometer bridge in the "foreseeable future" to connect Sakhalin and Hokkaido in northern Japan, which has increased European and Japanese relations. The possibility of eventually laying on land.

In the short term, Russia is also discussing the expansion of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport as an international passenger hub between Asia and the Americas.

 Limarenko said, "We are currently discussing the establishment of a hub with companies and some airlines to gather passengers at our Yuzo-Sakhalinsk airport and provide flights to China, Japan and the Americas with a range of approximately 8,000 kilometers."Editor/Huang Lijun