A Belarusian contractor won the tender for the construction of the new Smolensk-Severny airport. This was reported by the local portal Smolnarod.ru, citing its own sources, as noted by the publication "Belarusy i rynok" ( link ). The name of the winning company has not been disclosed.
Earlier, Dmitry Krutoy, head of Lukashenka's administration, stated that the Belarusian side plans to participate in this project, and a Minsk construction company would become the general contractor. According to him, this will be one of the largest construction projects that Belarus is currently implementing in Russia.
According to the tender documentation, the total initial cost of the works is almost 10 billion Russian rubles (about 120 million US dollars). The first lot involves the construction of a runway and infrastructure facilities. Its cost is 4.19 billion rubles (about 50 million US dollars). The second lot includes the construction of the airport terminal complex and utility networks, costing 5.7 billion rubles (about 70 million US dollars).
It is planned that the airfield will serve domestic passenger flights. The airport terminal complex is designed for a throughput of 200 passengers per hour, and the annual volume of traffic is expected to exceed 250,000 people.
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