Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Presidential Special Representative for Investment and Economic Cooperation with Foreign Countries, continues to talk up the great Bering Strait Tunnel project—a key project which EIR has long championed as vital to the LaRouche concept of building a “World Land-Bridge” connecting all the continents.
On Thursday, on the sidelines of the SPIEF, Dmitriev announced that an agreement is to be signed this week with an engineering company (whose name and nationality he did not specify) to carry out the design phase for the project. Today, Dmitriev told the Vesti TV program that China may be brought into the project. He explained:
“We hope to complete the design phase by the end of 2026. Again, the construction decision will be made based on the design results. We are moving forward with this project. Crucially, a similar project was discussed back in Tsarist times, it was discussed during Stalin’s era, and it was discussed as a ‘peace bridge’ between Khrushchev and Kennedy. Therefore, it has been discussed for a long time in various configurations… We believe that even China could join this project, because it will be of crucial infrastructural importance in connecting the continents together.”
Although Dmitriev did not mention it here, China’s leading rail engineer Wang Mengshu had stunned many in the West in 2014 when he included the Bering Strait Tunnel in China’s audacious global high-speed rail strategy, and reported that this was being discussed with Russia. In 2010 the Bering Strait Tunnel multi-modal transport design, drafted and presented by Dr. Victor Razbegin’s team at Russia’s Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS), had received the Grand Prize for Innovation at the Shanghai World Expo.
