“The railway part of the transport crossing is ready to receive the first trains,” Tursunbekova quotes TASS.
He clarified that permission was received to put the bridge into operation.
Tursunbekov also called the launch of the railway connection on the Crimean bridge "a gift for the New Year."
Earlier, the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Atomic Supervision (Rostekhnadzor) said that the construction of the railway part of the Crimean bridge was officially completed.