He noted that funds from the National Wealth Fund are now being attracted to "extend the road from St. Petersburg to Moscow, from Moscow to Yekaterinburg through Kazan, and thus, the existing route will allow moving from the Baltic directly to the Urals."
“In this regard, of course, we need to think about creating a new, more remote ring from the city, a car bypass of the city of St. Petersburg by analogy with the central ring road, which we recently opened in the Moscow region,” TASS quotes him.
Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order on the allocation of over 3 billion rubles for the construction and reconstruction of roads in the regions of Russia.