Metro Builders Strike In Russia's Krasnoyarsk
- 26.12.2025, 14:13
Because of unpaid wages.
Dump truck drivers from contractor Angara-Stroy, which is building a subway in Krasnoyarsk (RF), have gone on strike over delayed wages, NGS24.RU reports. They blocked the entrance to the site in the morning, parking their trucks in front of the regional government. One of the strike participants said that the main subcontractor, Bamtonnelstroy (BTS), has not paid money since August.
Another interlocutor of the newspaper noted that the drivers refuse to remove soil from the construction sites until the debts are paid.
"In September, they stopped sinking on Molokov Street. No work is being done there, it is not mentioned anywhere... At the moment we have suspended work on Marx and Revolution Square due to non-payment," he specified.
He said that as of December 16, the debt of Bamtonnelstroy-Krasnoyarsk (a subsidiary of BTS) to the drivers amounted to about 45 million rubles. On that day they sent a letter to the company's general director Konstantin Ponomarenko to stop working.
A representative of BTS-Krasnoyarsk management Vladimir Fedorov came out to the drivers. He admitted that the company does delay wages.
"Construction is constantly in a fever because there are problems with the absence of a certain part of the project documentation... There is no front of work today," Fedorov said.
The traffic police also came to the site of the strike. They wrote out fines to drivers for violating traffic rules because of parking in the wrong place and lack of technical inspection.
The construction customer - the regional Center for Transport Logistics (CTL) - said that it pays money to the general contractor - the Moscow company Mosproekt-3, and it independently works with BTS.
"The region is fully complying with the payment schedule and the schedule of works," assured CTL.
Bamtonnelstroy-Krasnoyarsk's management had earlier announced the risk of work stoppage and dismissal of hundreds of employees due to lack of money. General Director Konstantin Ponomarenko said in a letter to Bamtonnelstroy-Most JSC's project manager for the Metro Krasnoyarsk project Andrey Timochkin that the contractor has no money for salaries, payment for materials, work performed and equipment rental, and lacks a work front.
The Krasnoyarsk region was allocated an infrastructure loan of 89.2 billion rubles from the federal budget for the first stage of the project. The line includes six metro stations and covers the section from the Oktyabrsky District to the historical center of the city ("Strelka"). According to the plan, it should be built by the end of 2026. The second stage includes three more stations - from "Strelka" to the park of the 400th anniversary of Krasnoyarsk in the Sovetsky district.
According to Rosstat, from January to October the total wage arrears increased 6 times - from 370 million to almost 2.2 billion rubles. Workers at the Volkovskoye field in the Urals, Yaroslavl Shipbuilding Plant (YaSZ), Kingisepp Mechanical Plant (KMZ), Siberian Institute for Designing Machine-Building Enterprises (Sibpromproekt), as well as mine workers in the Sverdlovsk and Kaliningrad Regions, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Primorye, and Chukotka faced delays and non-payment.