Yekaterinburg authorities plan to spend more than 37 billion rubles by 2030 on improving urban spaces, including overhauling roads and artificial structures, building lighting networks and landscaping. These measures are stipulated in the program “Landscape improvement” approved by Mayor Alexei Orlov.
According to the program passport, the situation in the Yekaterinburg reclamation zone “does not fully meet the needs and prospects for the development of the city as an administrative center”. Thus, 32% of city roads do not meet requirements, bridges and overpasses were built more than half a century ago and are seriously degraded, more than 300 road sections have no lighting system and 38% of the existing lighting network needs to be modernized.
To overcome this situation, the program includes 211 measures. In addition, it is planned to allocate more than 8 billion rubles from the city and regional budget for the overhaul of roads, including in the city center (Popova, Dobrolyubova, Korolenko streets), on the Siberian Highway and in the village of Severka.
In addition, four dams on the Patrushikha and Olkhovka rivers, Maloistoksky and Shilovsky ponds will be completed, the underground passage at the Chelyuskintsev-Sverdlova intersection will be repaired, and the passage through Sibirsky Trakt, 8b, next to the former Gagarin Palace of Culture, will be removed.
The new lighting network will be installed on the streets of the Front Brigade (Elmash), Manevrovaya and Shuvakishskaya (Sorting), Aldanskaya (ZhBI), Tolstoy (Gorny Shield), Anatoly Muranov and Evgeniy Savkov (Shirokaya Rechka), Kariernaya (Lechebny), Admiral Ushakov (Rudny), Zelenaya (Shuvakish), as well as on the Bukhara highway – Ural (Compressor), Bypass sections, Aramilsky Highway and EKAD. The total cost of these works will be 4.6 billion rubles.
The program pays special attention to modernizing the storm water drainage system. Thus, by 2030, new rainwater treatment networks and facilities will appear in the Central district, at Sortirovka, Vtorchermet, Khimmash and next to the Central Culture-Culture Park. An Olkhovka river collector will be built in the area of Pekhotintsev and Nadezhdinskaya streets. As Uralinformburo wrote, due to the lack of a stormwater drainage system, the area at the corner of Pekhotintsev Street and Prokhodny Lane is often flooded by rain and meltwater.
Other program activities include adding landscaping to urban areas (about 1,640 trees per year), repairing bus shelters, purchasing de-icing materials, and seasonal street cleaning. The city plans to rent 79 units of new city cleaning equipment. The total purchase cost will be 107.4 million rubles.
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