Modernization of the Vladivostok tunnel of the Far Eastern Railway

JSC "Mosmetrostroy" is a diversified construction company that carries out contract based on the construction from scratch of metro, underground, transport, civil and other facilities structures. Metrostroy was founded in 1931 and laid the foundations for domestic metro construction. The first line of the Moscow metro was built in record time and commissioned in commissioned on May 15, 1935.
Modernization of the Vladivostok tunnel of the Far Eastern Railway
Opening date

June 21, 2019 (after reconstruction).

Location

A single-track railway tunnel in Vladivostok, laid under Mount Shoshina, connects the Pervaya Rechka valley with the area of Minny Gorodok and st. Lugovaya. Located between the Tretya Rabochaya and Lugovaya platforms. Through it, cargo is transported to ports on the Goldobina Peninsula (Cape Churkin), coal is transported to the Vladivostok CHPP-2, and passenger electric trains operate.

Object characteristics

The length of the single-track railway tunnel is 1,380 m

The length of the drainage adit is 1140 m

Construction volume: tunnel - 56,978 m3, adit - 7684 m3
Tunnel width 5.5 m
Tunnel height 6.6 m

Mosmetrostroy specialists completed the modernization of the Stalin railway tunnel. The tunnel was built in 1935 and has the status of a strategic object, and is also a historical and architectural monument of regional significance.

The project in the Far East included a wide range of work: construction of the roadbed and drainage trays, drilling of drainage wells, injection behind the lining and suppression of water inflows into the tunnel, waterproofing, construction of the working layer of the lining, repair of the adit, installation of the upper structure of the track and signaling systems, communications, energy facilities, construction of utility and service facilities. The modernization of the tunnel lasted three years without closing the traffic of freight trains during the 15-hour technological “windows”.

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