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West-West Perspective: Russia

author: Michael Kerjman
Oct 05, 2005 19:54

Out-of-square solutions among which a trance-continental railway connecting Russia with the States are seen as a way to tackle environmental/natural resources problems in a new millennium.

West-West Perspective: Russia

Although a known European dependence on Russia’s power sources substantiates world politics during at least two last centuries,

http://www.eu2005.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1107293561746&a=KArticle&aid=1128332266406&date=2005-10-04

new trends in further cooperation with eastern neighbours such as China and the USA of which businesses are major players of a Russian oil sector present a significant challenge, considering the trance-Bering Strait projects in progress.

Would connecting Russian Far East with Alaska by railway signify a new epoch in a human history?

http://itogi.ru/Paper2004.nsf/Article/Itogi_2004_01_27_09_3535.html

According to a Head of Regional Transport Projects (The Russian Academy of Science), Academic Victor Razbegin, there are two proposals for a railway direction. First one is a Vorkuta-Igarka extention of the Salehard Railway built in Stalin-gulag era, and eventually more foreign-investors-attractive second rout Yakuts-Magadan-Chukotka, which could boost Asian-American trade substantially.

Itself, crossing the Bering Srait is an engineering task of a significant consideration.

American engineers propose a two-storey bridge, a top level used to railway and a lower level for pipelines, of which cheaper cost estimated is fifty billiard dollars.

However, at this stage both sides do not reject an undersea tunnel as a more expensive but sustainable connection between continents.

Executing the project with connection to existing infrastructure is possible in 10-20 years with substantial economic gains to participants shortly afterwards.

All inter-governmental agreements were ready in 1998, and a recent political environment allows faster estimating details by the US side.

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Alaska
Posted by: Passerby at Oct 09, 2005 00:00

GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!

Making the History
Posted by: Reader at Oct 09, 2005 18:21

While browsing Internet, I'd found this cool article and felt myself obliged to express a point here:

Greatly benefiting own former colonial master that is the UK with no reason for by "Enduring the Freedom" indefinitely, developing Siberia and Alaska is long overdue and seen to be highly practical for the U.S. national interest of strentening relations with close neighbouring Russia,Asia,Canada - and considering the ongoing global environmental/climate changes specifically.

Moreover, an already existing railway connection between Australia and Asia (The Australasian Railway)adds additional prospects for global economics.

Is more American info on local developments in plain English available?

Ex-USSR-partners ?
Posted by: Jean at Nov 08, 2005 16:50

Not much left for ex-USSR-partners at all.

Interchange
Posted by: Alex at Mar 18, 2006 21:38

Any future for US-Rus co-operation in Alaska?

Searching the web for Kerjman, Michael
Posted by: Peter at Apr 22, 2006 23:05

Ho-ho-ho why Kerjman 's works are so hard to find even on these pages?

Here by some more nice comments:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2005/10/58137.html

Alaska-2006: Cook Inlet
Posted by: Michael Kerjman at Dec 19, 2006 17:50

I think visualization of Alaska is relevant on this page.

That is one of a strling of a natural beauty Cook Inlet and summer sunset presented me with (photo "Alaska-2005: Cook Inlet" is following).

Gibraltar train
Posted by: M. Kerjman at Apr 16, 2007 09:17

More about trains-this time Spain (Europe)- Marocco (Africa) link:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-04-14-tunnel_N.htm

So, which one to run first?

Dreams become reality
Posted by: Michael Kerjman at Apr 19, 2007 07:54

Yeah, yesterday announcement of building underpass between Russia and Canada ($6.5 Blrd.) had made more recent prophesies a reality:

http://www.tunnelbuilder.com/recordbreakers/theatre.htm
Bering Strait Crossing - candidate for a strait jacket
Suggestion put forward in 1991 for railway between United States and Russia by tunnelling 35 km from Seward peninsula in Alaska to a shaft on Little Diomede island in mid-Strait, onwards to a shaft on Big Diomede island, and then a further 35 km to Uelen on the Chukchi peninsula in Siberia. Design similar to the Channel Tunnel. Unlikely to happen because of requirement for 3,000 km rail link to join up with Canadian network and another 4,320 km to reach Russian railhead. Besides which, there is no good economic reason to join two sets of frozen wastes.

A question remains, which one of underpasses-Bering or Gibraltar- to be completed first?

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