"BTS-Most" (full name — the Bamtonnelstroy-Most group of companies) is a Russian construction holding company specializing in the building and reconstruction of railways and highways, bridges, tunnels, ports, and piers. Over the company's 47-year history, more than 2,500 infrastructure facilities have been built and commissioned in Russia.[1] The holding is connected with Nizhny Novgorod Region through a number of major transport projects — both those already under way and those still at the negotiation stage.

Activities

Among the best-known structures built by the group is the cable-stayed bridge to Russky Island in Vladivostok.[1] Other projects completed or actively built jointly with Gazprombank include the "Khabarovsk Bypass," the fourth bridge across the Ob in Novosibirsk, the Purovsky Bridge in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Syktyvkar — Naryan-Mar highway in the Komi Republic, the Western High-Speed Diameter in Saint Petersburg, as well as several sections of the Central Ring Road (TsKAD) and roads in Moscow Oblast.[1]

Projects in Nizhny Novgorod Region

As part of the construction of the M-12 Moscow — Kazan expressway, GK "BTS-Most" built two bridge crossings in Nizhny Novgorod Region — across the Oka and Sura rivers.[1]

In September 2022, "BTS-Most," together with a Gazprombank subsidiary — Infrastructura GChP LLC — submitted to the Nizhny Novgorod Region government a concession initiative for building a bypass around Balakhna and Zavolzhye (the second launch complex of the R-152 "Shopsha — Ivanovo — Nizhny Novgorod" highway). The project envisaged laying about 24–25 km of two-lane road; the cost was then estimated at 23 billion rubles, and a specially created project company was to serve as the concessionaire.[2][1] By 2026 the estimate had risen to about 30 billion rubles, but the concession agreement has not been signed.[3]

In the same month of September 2022, on the 16th, BTS-Most and Gazprombank sent the Nizhny Novgorod government another concession initiative — for building two toll roads bypassing Nizhny Novgorod: an eastern one 45 km long and a northern one 39.5 km long. The total investment was estimated at 170 billion rubles, the payback period at 29.5–30 years, and construction was planned to be completed in about seven years.[4] The company's deputy general director Aleksandr Kozarenko explained that implementing the projects would improve Nizhny Novgorod's transport links with other regions of Russia.[4]

In addition, the company stated its readiness to take part in the renovation of the sociocultural space of the A. A. Shpagin Plant in Perm, the expansion of the Vostochny landfill, and the creation of the first stage of the Vladivostok ring road.[1]

Sources

  1. Vremya N — Not Just a Lender
  2. Nizhny Seychas RF — Gazprombank and "BTS-Most" Proposed Building a Balakhna Bypass for 23 Billion Rubles
  3. GIPERNN — Three Plots Being Seized from the Volga Paper Mill for the Construction of the Balakhna Bypass
  4. Kommersant (Volga Region) — RBC: Gazprombank and "BTS-Most" Intend to Build Roads Bypassing Nizhny Novgorod for 170 Billion Rubles
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Seizure of Land Plots from the Volga Paper Mill for the Construction of the Balakhna Bypass (2026)