Russian Railways will ask 400 billion rubles from the state budget

Russian Railways is going to attract 400 billion rubles for the construction of the Moscow -Kazan high -speed highway from the state budget. This is stated in the presentation of the "daughter" of Russian Railways, the company "High -speed highways", a copy of which RBC has . As noted, Russian Railways confirmed that the presentation is real.

The total project cost is 1.288 trillion rubles. A third of this amount in the presentation is called a “capital grant”, which means direct budget subsidies or irrevocable money, RBC told RBC. It is noted that the company is not going to abandon private investment. So, Russian Railways will ask for 504 billion rubles from Chinese investors, 224 billion rubles from the German Initiative consortium, which includes Siemens, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bahn and other companies, and another 600 billion rubles from other investors.

“The Russian Railways really has a story with a capital grant of 400 billion rubles in one of the models. These are still basic options that are being studied so far. Because so far there is no money either a Chinese investor or a German investor, the banks have not yet said “yes”, ”said RBC’s source in one of the ministries.

At the same time, a high -ranking source in Russian Railways said that the company has not yet officially applied to the government. As noted in the Ministry of Economic Development, the “daughter” of Russian Railways did not discuss the allocation of money with the department. At the same time, the department said that it was “unlikely” to obtain the approval of the government for such an amount.

The Moscow -Kazan section can become part of the Moscow -Beijing highway, the construction cost of which is estimated at 7 trillion rubles. The estimated period of launch of the site is 2023.

In 2013, the project cost was estimated at 1 trillion rubles, while it was assumed that 380 billion would be allocated from the state budget. In 2016, the idea of ​​state financing was abandoned, and Russian Railways stated that the construction would be investigated by the German initiative. As noted, state money (643.2 billion rubles) will be needed only for the first 11 years.