On March 17, 2008, from the Russian Ministry of Construction, Russia announced a "Auto Road" plan with a total value of 412 billion U.S. dollars. Among them, the federal government invested 220 billion U.S. dollars, local governments invested 74 billion U.S. dollars, and the rest will be completed through the issuance of national construction bonds and financial market financing. In this plan, Russia plans to build a 2,000-km-long highway trunk road throughout the country, and to renovate the existing 37,000-km highway.

On December 16, 2021, Russia announced a large-scale transportation infrastructure development plan. The government has set a budget of US$1.78 billion for the construction of new road routes. The largest of these projects will be the construction of the new M12 highway that connects Moscow and Kazan and runs through Nizhny Novgorod. Keywords: engineering construction, engineering news

Other major projects include a new section of the M4 Don highway, a 51-kilometer bypass around Krasnodar, and a 67-kilometer bypass around Aksaya. The $266.5 million detour project around Novorossiysk will begin in 2022 and should be completed in 2023.Editor/XingWentao