The project, which
A 3,700-mile (6,000-km), road, rail and pipeline corridor linking the
The distance from Naukan, on the eastern tip of Siberia, to Big Diomede Island in Russian water, is 24 miles. It's another 3 miles across the border to Little Diomede Island on the US side and another 25 miles to Wales, Alaska.
The 3,700-mile (6,000 km) is very close to the straight-line distance between oil and gas fields near Irkutsk in Russia to Anchorage, Alaska.
"This will be a business project, not a political one," Maxim Bystov, deputy head of
The
The tunnel will contain a high-speed railway, highway and pipelines, as well as fiber-optic and power cables, according to TKM-World Link.
Investors in the so-called public-private partnership include Russian Railways, the national utility Unified Energy System and the pipeline operator Transneft.
Viktor Razbegin, deputy head of industrial research at the Russian Economy Ministry, said the Russian and American governments may eventually take 25 percent stakes in the project.
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