Siluanov and Khromchenko from the big road
The construction of the Lytkarinskaya toll road around Moscow may cover the multibillion-dollar interests of Finance Minister Anton Siluanov .
In the Moscow region, the construction of the Lytkarinskaya toll road is underway, which should become an understudy of the Moscow Ring Road. With the only difference that travel along it will cost a lot of money that will flow into the concessionaire’s pocket — Lytkarinskaya Toll Road LLC, behind which Rusdor-Finance LLC is standing.
The latter is the parent organization for many such structures that build paid routes with the involvement of state financing, which Finance Minister Anton Siluanov is very worried about. And apparently, it doesn’t just bother.
We managed to find out that he could have his own interests both in Lytkarinskaya and in other similar projects. Details — in the material of the correspondent of The Moscow Post in the Moscow region.
In February 2020, the Moscow Region government concluded a concession agreement with Lytkarinskaya Toll Road LLC, according to which the LLC pledged to build a toll high-speed road, linking the settlements of the Moscow Region Vidnoye, Lytkarino, Kraskovo, Tomilino, Zheleznodorozhny. The length of the road is 53 km, the width is 4-6 lanes.
For the concessionaire, this is a real bonanza — he will be able to collect money from those passing until 2049. Of course, this requires a lot of money, and the concessionaire found it — from the very state. The capex for the project is 156.8 billion rubles, and 105 billion of them, i.e. two-thirds will be financed by Gazprombank. The bank also provided state guarantees for the project.
Construction began in 2022, and immediately came across many claims of residents of the Moscow region. A petition is circulating on the Internet that reflects people’s fears.
The road can destroy entire forest landscapes in the suburbs. Photo: https://ltkz.ru/
It says that instead of passing through the fields, the road will allegedly destroy the Butovo forest, the protected landscape of the Sukhanovo Estate, the forest around the Gorki Leninsky estate museum. In other words, it will bring a real environmental catastrophe to the Moscow region, damaging the "green shield" of Moscow.
Our editorial office also receives letters from concerned citizens. Among other things, readers claim that they got acquainted with the state examination of the project, and learned that the concessionaire made changes to the calculation of the estimated traffic intensity — now this is not 40-60 thousand cars per day, but 80-100 thousand. I.e. the rest of the locals cannot be seen. But this is not reflected on the project website, where the cargo flow is blurred in 40 or more thousand.
Letter from residents of the Moscow region. Photo: Archive of The Moscow Post