through them. There are no large lakes, reservoirs. In
the west, the highway would pass under Lake Peipsi.
From the east and from the west along this route,
the highway relies on seaports – in the east Magadan
and Okhotsk, in the west Ust-Luga and in general
the system of the port agglomeration of St.
Petersburg. This is important for connecting cargo
and passengers arriving by sea to the highway. But it
is especially important as the possibility of
continuing the Hyperloop transport pipelines to
Europe under the Baltic Sea.
The landscape along this route is favorable for
the construction of the highway. Basically, it will
pass through flat areas. Only in the eastern part from
the Aldan River to the city of Okhotsk will it be
necessary to punch tunnels in the Prilensky plateau.
The route from the point of view of the landscape is
easier than the BAM route. But modern technologies
are much ahead of those that were half a century ago
when the Baikal-Amur highway was built.
Currently, in the Russian Federation there is a
project of the "Lensko-Kamchatskaya railway line".
In it, from the village of Nepa on the Lower
Tunguska to Shelikhov Bay, a section is planned
along approximately the same route that is proposed
here as the eastern part of the highway across the
country at 59-60 degrees north latitude. This
indicates that the specified transport corridor in its
mountainous eastern part is possible and real.
Probably, it will be possible to make a highway
close to a perfectly straight line only from the
Yenisei and to the Baltic Sea coast. Across the West
Siberian and East European plains. It is more than
six thousand kilometers.
A section of the new "Silk Road" using
Hyperloop technology connecting Europe and East
Asia. The southern branch.
The southern section of the route could use the
existing Transsib and BAM transport corridors. On
these tracks, railways could be replaced by
Hyperloop pipeline transport systems.
But in the east, the Trans-Siberian Railway
follows along the border of Russia with Mongolia
and China, to Vladivostok. BAM from the transport
hub in the city of Tynda, follows parallel to the
Trans-Siberian Railway to Novy Urgal, and then,
through Postyshevo and Komsomolsk-on-Amur,
follows to the ports of the Tatar Strait of the Sea of
Japan - Vanino and Sovetskaya Gavan-Gorod. This
route leaves aside the very important Nevelsky
Strait, through a tunnel under which goods from
Japan and South Korea and countries that have
reloaded goods from ships to Hyperloop capsules in
Japanese ports would go to Russia and transit
through Russia. And also, this route is not connected
to the highway to the Bering Strait, which is the
main feature of the new Silk Road, given the
importance of the US economy for the world as a
whole. Therefore, it is important to connect the
highway running along the BAM route with the
Nevelsky Strait area and with the highway following
the Bering Strait and further to the USA. For
example, from Postyshevo, the highway could
follow not only to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, but also
to the Nevelsky Strait and to the city of Tugur in
order to connect with the highway along the coast of
the Sea of Okhotsk in the USA and become a single
system with it. The connection of transport hubs in
the cities of Verkhnezeisk (on the BAM) and
Chumikan (on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk)
could also shorten and make the connection between
highways along the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk and
along the BAM route more direct.
In the western part of the country, the Hyperloop
highway running along the Transsib route, from
Omsk, should follow the historical Transsib route to
Samara. Or, follow the Samara region and past it a
little from the south, focusing on 52.5-52.6 degrees
north latitude in a straight line, if possible, with
access here to a convenient place for crossing the
Volga, consisting of wide reservoirs. Let me remind
you that a straight line is the most favorable route
for Hyperloop transport, which in such conditions
will be able to maintain a constant speed of more
than 1200 kilometers per hour without slowing down
on turns. The meaning and advantages of this type of
transport, first of all, is in speed.
From Samara to the west, the highway should
move as straight as possible, approximately 52,2-
52,6 degrees north latitude. Beyond the territory of
Russia, it will pass through the cities of southern
Belarus Gomel, Kalinkovichi, Luninets and Brest,
along the route of the railway that exists today, to
Poland, and then to Germany.
A section of the continuation of the new Silk
Road in Europe, Asia and North America.
If we are talking about the Northern branch of
the highway crossing the territory of Russia, then
from the Ust-Luga area and St. Petersburg, the
Hyperloop pipeline transport highway could follow
to Germany under the waters of the Baltic Sea, like
the Nord Stream gas transmission system. In order to
diversify the route, as well as to exclude the use of a
dangerous underwater section for passenger
transportation, there should be a second route –
through the Baltic States to Poland and Germany.
Also, the third direction of the continuation of the
route outside of Russia is promising – the highway