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Moscow's oldest civilian airport closed down.
MOSCOW, November 2 (Itar-Tass) - Moscow City's oldest airport, Bykovo, has closed down, officials at the Russian Federal Service for Civil Aviation told Itar-Tass.
"The airdrome is out of operation at present," an official said.
The cause of the airport's closure, which was actively discussion at
professional internet forums Monday, was the expiry of a lease contract
for the airport compound that has been operated in recent years by the
Bykovo-Avia company.
The suspension of services at the airport also brought to a standstill
a meteorological station located on its territory and covering the
southeast of the Moscow region.
"It's true that the station is closed," an official at Moscow City's
hydrometeorology bureau said. "It transmitted the last set of date to us
October 26," he said.
Bykovo airport was commissioned in 1936. Sometime in the past, it
would be a major Soviet air harbor.
By 1991, the airport serviced some 550 flights a day.
The process of Bykovo's degradation began after the disintegration of
the USSR in 1991. It stood idle for several years, and then several
airline came there at a time to organize chartered and business-class
flights from it.
They found the airport convenient enough because of its close location
to the city /just 16 kilometers away and fast access routes.
The service capacity of the two-story airport terminal is 350
passengers an hour and a special compound for international flights, built
by the side of the old airport, can service about a hundred passengers per
hour.
.Moscow City govt to discuss safety of traveling in Moscow metro.
MOSCOW, November 2 (Itar-Tass) - A session of Moscow City's government
is due to raise the problems of quality, technical reliability and safety
of traveling in the metro system, which is the world's second largest in
terms of the number of passengers carried a day.
Another important issue is improvements in the relationship between
the city government and wholesale food traders 'on the principles of
public-private partnership'.
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin names the transport problems, including the
functioning of the metro system, among the priorities of his work.
"We'll set the maximum pace to the construction of new metro lines
because one way or another it is the largest carrier of passengers," he
said a few days ago. "It must develop and it must reach out to areas
outside Moscow's Outer Ring Road /which marks off the geographic and
administrative boundaries of the city by and large - Itar-Tass/, to
suburban areas."
"Yet this measure won't be very helpful itself, as the metro system is
overloaded already, and hence there's a need to build new lines," Sobyanin
said.
He admitted that the program is extremely expansive and it requires
huge funds. "We'll need 45 billion to 50 billion rubles for it annually."
Sobyanin believes that, on the whole, the city government can afford
building up to 15 kilometers of new metro lines a year, and he promised to
concentrate the necessary financial resources to fulfill the program.
"A hundred kilometers of new metro lines is a minimum program," he
said. "As for the maximum program, it envisions up to 300 kilometers of
lines."
For the mass media, Tuesday's session will be a novel one. They will
be allowed to enter the mayoralty building but not to the conference hall.
Rapporteurs on separate issues will go out of the hall to speak to the
media upon the discussion of each issue.
Some sources indicate that the city government may discuss up to
twenty issues at the conference.
In the meantime, the TVC will not air the traditional 'Facing the
City' show where the mayor addresses city residents. It will be replaced
by a program highlighting the destiny of Soviet-era pop hits.
Mayoralty sources promised, however, that Facing the City will go on
air next Tuesday "in the scheduled more".
.Russia-China oil pipeline to be switched into test run mode.
BEIJING, November 2 (Itar-Tass) - Russia-China oil pipeline has been
switched into test run operation mode. Early morning Tuesday, Russian
crude pumped through the pipeline reached the town of Mohe in the
northwest Heilongjiang province.
Chinese customs authorities say the pipeline is expected to put
through some 250,000 tons of technological oil in November and 300,000
tons in December.
Under a bilateral agreement, commercial supplies of crude by this
pipeline in the amount of 15 million tons a year are due to begin as of
January 1, 2011.
The China branch-out of the East Siberia - Pacific Ocean pipeline has
been built in line with an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in
the oil industry, which the two sides signed in February 2009.
Under the document, the Russian upstream company Rosneft and the
transporting company Transneft get Chinese loans of $ 15 billion and $ 10
billion respectively in exchange for guarantees of oil supplies over a
period of 20 years /from 2011 through to 2030/.
The annual supplies are due to stand at 15 million tons.
The Russia-China pipeline branches off from the trunk line in the town
of Skovorodino, Russia's Amur region. It then crosses the Russian-Chinese
border near Mohe and terminates in Daqing, Heilongjiang province.
A ceremony to mark the completion of construction works at the
pipeline was held in Beijing's downtown Great Hall of the People.
Presidents Dmitry Medvedev of Russia and Hu Jintao of Beijing attended it.
-0-kle
"The airdrome is out of operation at present," an official said.
The cause of the airport's closure, which was actively discussion at
professional internet forums Monday, was the expiry of a lease contract
for the airport compound that has been operated in recent years by the
Bykovo-Avia company.
The suspension of services at the airport also brought to a standstill
a meteorological station located on its territory and covering the
southeast of the Moscow region.
"It's true that the station is closed," an official at Moscow City's
hydrometeorology bureau said. "It transmitted the last set of date to us
October 26," he said.
Bykovo airport was commissioned in 1936. Sometime in the past, it
would be a major Soviet air harbor.
By 1991, the airport serviced some 550 flights a day.
The process of Bykovo's degradation began after the disintegration of
the USSR in 1991. It stood idle for several years, and then several
airline came there at a time to organize chartered and business-class
flights from it.
They found the airport convenient enough because of its close location
to the city /just 16 kilometers away and fast access routes.
The service capacity of the two-story airport terminal is 350
passengers an hour and a special compound for international flights, built
by the side of the old airport, can service about a hundred passengers per
hour.
.Moscow City govt to discuss safety of traveling in Moscow metro.
MOSCOW, November 2 (Itar-Tass) - A session of Moscow City's government
is due to raise the problems of quality, technical reliability and safety
of traveling in the metro system, which is the world's second largest in
terms of the number of passengers carried a day.
Another important issue is improvements in the relationship between
the city government and wholesale food traders 'on the principles of
public-private partnership'.
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin names the transport problems, including the
functioning of the metro system, among the priorities of his work.
"We'll set the maximum pace to the construction of new metro lines
because one way or another it is the largest carrier of passengers," he
said a few days ago. "It must develop and it must reach out to areas
outside Moscow's Outer Ring Road /which marks off the geographic and
administrative boundaries of the city by and large - Itar-Tass/, to
suburban areas."
"Yet this measure won't be very helpful itself, as the metro system is
overloaded already, and hence there's a need to build new lines," Sobyanin
said.
He admitted that the program is extremely expansive and it requires
huge funds. "We'll need 45 billion to 50 billion rubles for it annually."
Sobyanin believes that, on the whole, the city government can afford
building up to 15 kilometers of new metro lines a year, and he promised to
concentrate the necessary financial resources to fulfill the program.
"A hundred kilometers of new metro lines is a minimum program," he
said. "As for the maximum program, it envisions up to 300 kilometers of
lines."
For the mass media, Tuesday's session will be a novel one. They will
be allowed to enter the mayoralty building but not to the conference hall.
Rapporteurs on separate issues will go out of the hall to speak to the
media upon the discussion of each issue.
Some sources indicate that the city government may discuss up to
twenty issues at the conference.
In the meantime, the TVC will not air the traditional 'Facing the
City' show where the mayor addresses city residents. It will be replaced
by a program highlighting the destiny of Soviet-era pop hits.
Mayoralty sources promised, however, that Facing the City will go on
air next Tuesday "in the scheduled more".
.Russia-China oil pipeline to be switched into test run mode.
BEIJING, November 2 (Itar-Tass) - Russia-China oil pipeline has been
switched into test run operation mode. Early morning Tuesday, Russian
crude pumped through the pipeline reached the town of Mohe in the
northwest Heilongjiang province.
Chinese customs authorities say the pipeline is expected to put
through some 250,000 tons of technological oil in November and 300,000
tons in December.
Under a bilateral agreement, commercial supplies of crude by this
pipeline in the amount of 15 million tons a year are due to begin as of
January 1, 2011.
The China branch-out of the East Siberia - Pacific Ocean pipeline has
been built in line with an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in
the oil industry, which the two sides signed in February 2009.
Under the document, the Russian upstream company Rosneft and the
transporting company Transneft get Chinese loans of $ 15 billion and $ 10
billion respectively in exchange for guarantees of oil supplies over a
period of 20 years /from 2011 through to 2030/.
The annual supplies are due to stand at 15 million tons.
The Russia-China pipeline branches off from the trunk line in the town
of Skovorodino, Russia's Amur region. It then crosses the Russian-Chinese
border near Mohe and terminates in Daqing, Heilongjiang province.
A ceremony to mark the completion of construction works at the
pipeline was held in Beijing's downtown Great Hall of the People.
Presidents Dmitry Medvedev of Russia and Hu Jintao of Beijing attended it.
-0-kle
