Russian Railways are starting to justify the construction of the Moscow-Minsk and Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod high-speed lines

Russian Railways are starting work on a preliminary technical feasibility study for the construction of the Moscow-Minsk and Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod high-speed lines.

Russian Transport Minister Andrei Nikitin said that he had previously proposed to President Vladimir Putin to build a Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod-Kazan and Moscow-Minsk high-speed railway after the Moscow-St. Petersburg high-speed railway.

MINSK, October 1 - RIA Novosti. Russian Railways are starting work on a preliminary technical feasibility study for the construction of the Moscow-Minsk and Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod high-speed lines, Russian Transport Minister Andrei Nikitin told reporters.

In the summer of this year, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the minister proposed that after the Moscow-St. Petersburg high-speed railway, the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod-Kazan and Moscow-Minsk high-speed lines should be built next. The head of the Ministry of Transport then asked permission to begin the preliminary study of these projects and promised to send a corresponding request. Putin replied: “Of course.”

Russian Railways is starting work on a preliminary technical feasibility study for the Moscow-Minsk and Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod roads. The immediate priorities are as follows,” Nikitin answered the question about the future implementation of other high-speed rail projects, of which there are only five.

Until 2045, Russia will have a high-speed railway network of more than 4.5 thousand kilometers, with about 300 trains running throughout the network, RIA Novosti reported in June 2025, Vitaly Savelyev, who was then Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.