Today the Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov made an important statement. He said about the full transfer of train traffic "in accordance with the regulatory schedule" before the end of this year. This will affect 62 pairs of passenger and 30 pairs of freight trains. The construction of two tracks of the Zhuravka-Millerovo railway line began in 2014.
, after the deterioration of relations with Ukraine. In August 2017 g. work was completedAlready in September, on the road went freight trains, and this month - the passenger, not making intermediate stops on the old line. A new railway with a length of 137 km passes only through the territory of our country-along the Voronezh and Rostov regions. The project required 56 billion rubles. Before the construction of the line, the trains to the south of Russia crossed the border with Ukraine.