20 km of modern roads to be built for APEC summit on Russky Island.

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VLADIVOSTOK, March 3 (Itar-Tass) - About 20 kilometres of modern
highways will be built on the Russky Island for the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) forum's summit that will be held in Vladivostok in 2012.
The cost of this project is 3 billion roubles and all the needed
documentation has been handed over to the new customer of the construction
- the Federal State Enterprise "Far Eastern Directorate of the Economic
Development Ministry." The project of capital repairs of about 60
kilometres highways on the main part of the Russky Island has also been
prepared.
According to deputy head of the Vladivostok administration Alexei
Sukhov, the new road will link Far Eastern Federal State University that
is being built on the Sapyorny Peninsula with the bridge across the Bosfor
Vostochny Strait. The university's buildings in 2012 will accommodate the
APEC summit's participants and guests. The new road will have four lanes,
illumination, bus stops and sidewalk. From the highway roads will be built
to the oceanarium the construction of which has started on the Zhitkov
Peninsula, as well as to the Pospelov Cape pier. The highway will have
high durability of the surface owing to the modern system of storm water
drain and the use of newest construction technologies.
The designers have also took into consideration the island's unique
nature and historical monuments: facilities that are part of the
Vladivostok Fortress complex will not be affected by the large-scale
construction work, and the views of several batteries and the Pospelov
Port will be opening from the highway.
Over 40 large facilities are to be built for the 2012 APEC summit in
Vladivostok, including roads, bridges, hotels, water and power supply
facilities.
The construction of the second mini thermal power plant "Tsentralnaya"
(Central) for the supply of electricity to APEC facilities has been
launched on the Russky Island. Operations aimed at the arrangement of
temporary facilities: a settlement for construction shift workers, the
installation of a mini plant for the production of concrete for building
foundations for energy facilities are currently in progress. When this
phase ends, the active phase of the mini power plant's construction will
be launched, head of the information policy service of the Daltekhenergo
company engaged in the construction Anastasia Brazhina told Itar-Tass on
Tuesday.
According to her, the new power facility the construction of which
will cost 830 million roubles, will be commissioned this November. The
construction of the "Severnaya" (Northern) mini thermal power plant is
continuing simultaneously. Its construction was started last September.
The laying of engineering networks of the water pipeline, sewage system
and installation of fire-fighting tanks is currently underway.
According to Daltekhenergo director general Viktor Sukhanov, the
construction of generating facilities within the framework of preparations
for the APEC summit is first of all a social project, because after this
international forum the built capacities will ensure stable electricity
supply of Vladivostok, in particular, Far Eastern Federal University and
research institutes that will be built on the Russky Island.
This year, in accordance with the special federal programme, the
financing of the construction work in the Russky Island will amount to
29.3 billion roubles - 4.5 times more than in 2009. Last year a total
value of the construction work was 6.5 billion roubles.
It has been decided to build dwellings for residents of the Russky
Island - 18 families, whose houses in the village of Ayaks were pulled
down to clear the space for Far Eastern Federal University, as well as 150
people from other villages of the island, who live in ramshackle
dwellings, will be given flats in new low-storey houses.
The APEC Russia 2012 summit will be the twenty-fourth annual gathering
of APEC leaders. The summit on the Russky Island will see the building of
resorts, dinner and entertainment facilities, in addition to the
renovation and upgrading of Vladivostok International Airport.
At APEC Vietnam 2006 in Hanoi, Russia put forward a proposal to host
the 2012 summit. Originally, Patrokl Bay was suggested as the site. The
original plan was to build a palace to host the actual summit, and a
number of five-star hotels for visitors. After the summit, the palace
would be converted into a wedding palace, its conference centre - into the
Theatre of Opera and Ballet, and the hotels - into residential buildings.
The proposal put forward for Russia to hold the 2012 summit on Russky
Island, which during the Soviet-era was a closed military island, was
confirmed at the end of the APEC Australia 2007 summit in Sydney,
Australia. At a press conference in Sydney, Primorsky Krai governor Sergei
Darkin estimated the cost of hosting the summit at 147.5 billion roubles.
The construction of infrastructure serving the summit, by Darkin experts'
estimates, would aid economic development in the Russian Far East and
would see more than a six-fold increase of the Gross Regional Product of
Primorsky Krai by 2020.
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