Russia’s plan for the longest underwater tunnel connecting with Alaska

Posted on April 19, 2007
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The cold war when the notion of any collaboration between Russia and North America was thought as heresy is long over. In the name of economics and the new world order, Russia is proposing that a tunnel connecting Russia with Alaska be constructed for the purpose of making it easier to transport commodities between the two continents. The tunnel which if constructed would be the world’s longest will be dug under the Bering Strait connecting Siberia and Alaska. The planned undersea tunnel would contain a high-speed railway, highway and pipelines, as well as power and fiber-optic cables, according to TKM-World Link.

Bering Strait

The length of the underwater tunnel will be 65 miles or almost twice as long as the Channel Tunnel connecting the U.K. and France. The cost for the project is estimated at $10-$12 billion.

Russian Czar Alexander II sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7,2 million. The formal transfer occurred on October 18, 1867 which is celebrated as Alaska Day yearly.

The new route will be used for the transportation of goods using a railway as well as energy including oil and natural gas. In addition, Russia intends to supply North America electricity generated in the currently planned Tugurskaya and Pendzhinskaya tidal plants, each with capacity of as much as 10 gigawatts, in the Okhotsk Sea, close to Sakhalin Island.

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