Tender for the completion of Dzerzhinsk Line of the Novosibirsk Metro to be announced in March.

      The conditions for the completion of Dzerzhinskaya Line were formed by 90%. Now, the adoption of the state program on provision the availability of public transportation in the region is the first step to tender announcement and defining the winning investor.

      On February 25 the Government of the Novosibirsk Oblast approved the program of public transportation development, which costs about 27 billion rubles, excluding extra-budgetary sources. According to the document, for 2014-2021 the subway development will be financed by the regional budget in the amount of 7.3 billion rubles, by the budget of Novosibirsk with 9 billion rubles and investors' funds will total 12.8 billion. One metro depot and four stations – Chkalov Palace of Culture, Dzerzhinsky Garden, Gusinobrodskaya and Molodyozhnaya – are projected to be built in the Dzerzhinsk district of Novosibirsk. It is expected that part of the section from the nearest station Zolotaya Niva to Gusinobrodskaya can be built aboveground: this will simplify and reduce the project cost.