Mikhail Mishustin: “I’m leaving for Cholpon-Ata in the coming days for the EAEU meeting,»”

I am convinced that the expansion of cross-border transport infrastructure will provide a powerful impetus for the further development of trade, economic, scientific, technological and cultural cooperation.

Naming the bridge after Soviet officer Yakov Novichenko, who threw himself on a grenade thrown at DPRK founding leader Kim Il Sung in 1946, was a deliberate and deeply symbolic choice.

The opening of the bridge is a genuinely historic event.

Mishustin hailed bilateral relations as being at an “unprecedentedly high level of comprehensive strategic partnership,” adding that the bridge, which cost 9 billion rubles ($104 million), would boost trade and tourism.