The role of Minsk in the Eurasia highway project should not be limited to transit.

Belarus, as part of the implementation of the high-speed railway (HSR) project from China to Western Europe, should not be considered only as a transit territory - the country needs to become a full-fledged transport and logistics hub, taking into account the proximity of seaports on the Baltic Sea. This opinion was expressed on Tuesday by Vladimir Litvintsev, Academic Secretary of the Interdepartmental Coordination Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Transnational Development of the Eurasian Continent".

“Belarus should become not just a transit territory, but a full-fledged transport - a logistics center, taking into account the proximity of the Baltic seaports, as well as Poland and Ukraine, " - V. Litvintsev said at a joint meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. The next meeting is devoted to the role of science in the formation of a single scientific and technological space of the Union State. The main topic is the scientific support of the strategic project "United Eurasia", in particular, the creation of a new generation transcontinental transport system.

For his part, the Deputy Secretary of State of the Union State, Alexei Kubrin, who is participating in the meeting, added that Belarus, in the context of the creation of the high-speed railways, must also become a forge of scientific and industrial personnel capable of ensuring its development.

" Within the framework of interaction between the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Russian Academy of Sciences, the country should be considered not just as a transit territory, but as a forge of industrial and educational personnel. And here it is necessary to count on the potential that the Union State has ”, A. Kubrin noted.

About the project

The total length of the Eurasia high-speed highway, which will run from Beijing to Berlin through Nur-Sultan, Moscow and Minsk, will be 9447 km, including 2366 km across Russia. The total capital expenditures for the construction of the Brest (Belarus) - Dostyk (Kazakhstan) section amount to RUB 7.08 trillion, and the Dostyk - Urumqi (China) section - RUB 0.76 trillion.

The cost of the Russian section of the Eurasia HSR is estimated at 3.58 trillion rubles. The length of the highway through the territory of Russia will exceed 2.3 thousand km along the route Krasnoe (border with Belarus) - Moscow - Kazan - Yekaterinburg - Chelyabinsk - Zolotaya Sopka (border with Kazakhstan). The commissioning of different high-speed sections is possible at different times.

According to preliminary calculations, the Eurasia cargo-passenger high-speed railway will become the world's largest project in the field of railway transport and will allow uniting the largest high-speed