President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to consider the issue of building the North Siberian Railway. This task is included in the list of instructions, which was published on the Kremlin website on October 3.

The head of state gave these instructions following a government meeting, which took place in August and was dedicated to climate change and the development of transport infrastructure. The order states that the Government of Russian Federation, the government of Kemerovo region, the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Railways should consider the issue of the North Siberian Railway construction and report on implementation by March 1, 2024.

Construction of the 1.9 thousand km long North Siberian Railway from Nizhnevartovsk to Ust-Ilimsk was conceived back in the early 2000s as a northern backup of the Trans-Siberian Railway. The project was included in the Railway Transport Development Strategy until 2030, adopted in 2008. Former Director General of IEDT JSC (formerly known as Giprotrans TEI) Fedor Pekhterev told Gudok in the same year that the exhaustion of the Trans-Siberian transport and throughput capabilities will signal for the start of design and survey work on the project .

The full text of the article can be found on the website Gudok.