Traffic on the Taldykorgan-Ust-Kamenogorsk highway is planned to open this year

The highway “Taldykorgan-Ust-Kamenogorsk” with a length of 763 kilometers will pass bypassing the village of Koylyk in the Almaty region and Shynkozh, Ushbik, Ayagoz in the East Kazakhstan region.

Construction is carried out by CITIC Cinstruction Co. Ltd LLP, K-Dorstroy LLP and Todini Central Asia LLP. Quality control of work is carried out by the companies SE ENGINEERING LLP and ZS Enginering.

According to the project, a 32-kilometer section from the city of Taldykorgan will correspond to the 1st technical category with 4 lanes for traffic. A section of the road with a length of 731 km will correspond to the second technical category with 2 lanes for traffic.

The reconstruction provides for the construction of 6 bridges, 3 overpasses across the railway, 11 illuminated transport interchanges, 276 pipes, rest areas, as well as the installation of covered bus stop in the areas of settlements.

To date, more than 9970 cubic meters of earthworks have been completed, 252 culverts and 22 cattle passes have been built. In addition, 159 km of the  bottom course of sand and gravel, 130 km of the subbase, 118 km of the upper base layer of highly porous coarse-grained asphalt concrete and 93 km of the base course of dense coarse-grained asphalt were laid at the facility. Work is underway on the construction of 25 artificial structures - overpasses, bridges and traffic intersections.

In total, about 3 thousand units of equipment and about 5 thousand people are involved in the reconstruction of the route. Before the end of 2020, it is planned to open traffic throughout the highway. The project will be commissioned in 2022.