"Given the
unique nature of this facility, extensive measures of technical control to
ensure transport security have been envisaged there," the official said.
MOSCOW, July 24.
/TASS/. Special security measures will be in place for the railway section of
the Crimean Bridge, connecting the peninsula with mainland Russia, the director
general of the Russian Transport Ministry’s departmental security service,
Alexey Kovyrshin, told TASS on Wednesday.
"At present,
works are being carried out to equip the railway segment of the Crimean Bridge
with the required engineering and technical equipment for transport security,
as envisaged by the project. Given the unique nature of this facility, extensive
measures of technical control to ensure transport security have been envisaged
there," he said.
"For today, this
facility will be among our country’s most protected transport infrastructure
facilities," the official added.
According to the
official, the car and the railway sections of the Crimean Bridge will be
considered two separate objects, and the safety there will be ensured by
different agencies - the car section will be guarded by the Transport
Ministry’s departmental security service and the rail section - by the rail
transport departmental security service. The overall security will be provided
by officers of the Russian Guard, who will also patrol waters around the
bridge.
The 19-kilometer long
Crimean Bridge, the longest one in Russia, links the Taman Peninsula and the
Kerch Peninsula. The bridge’s motorway section was inaugurated in May 2018,
with President Vladimir Putin taking part in the opening ceremony. The railway
section is expected to be unveiled by the end of 2019.
Source: ITAR-TASS
24-07-2019
