Medvedev to chair to inspect preparations for APEC summit in Vladivostok.

VLADIVOSTOK, June 30 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
on Thursday will chair a conference in Russia's Far Eastern city of
Vladivostok on preparations for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) summit that Russia is to play host to in 2012, presidential press
secretary Natalia Timakova said.
Medvedev will begin his working day in Vladivostok with a visit to the
city airport complex that is currently under construction. Later, he will
have a helicopter tour of other summit facilities under construction,
including the bridge that connects the mainland to the Russky Island, and
the Far Eastern University campus that is to accommodate the summit
delegates.
In the grounds of the University campus, the president will confer
with those who are responsible for preparations for the APEC summit.
In the evening, he will visit the Comandor coastal guard ship and the
Pallada sailing ship.
The bridge across the Eastern Bosporus strait, which is under
construction, will link the Nadimovo peninsula on the mainland with cape
Novosilsky on the Russky Island. The unique bridge, which has no analogues
in Russia, will be one of world's longest boat bridge with the central
span of 1,104 meters. The bridge will have the highest pylon and longest
shrouds. The bridge's length will be 3.1 kilometers, the cable bridge
section across the strait will be 1,885.53-meters long, the height over
the water surface - 70 meters, and the height of pylons - 320.9 meters.
The construction is expected to be over in March 2012.
Medvedev visited Vladivostok last year. In July 2010, he attended
festivities on the occasion of the city's 150th jubilee, and held a series
of meetings, including those dealing with preparations for the APEC summit.