Construction of the metro in Nizhny Novgorod has come to a halt due to unpaid wages for workers
In Nizhny Novgorod, workers have suspended construction on a new metro section due to months of delayed wages. According to the workers, some of them are owed hundreds of thousands of rubles, and management keeps postponing payment dates.
Currently, work on the section near the “Sennaya” station has effectively come to a halt, with only a security guard remaining at the construction site. Many workers were on a rotating shift schedule and now find themselves in a strange city without any money.
The general contractor for the project is “Mosproekt-3,” but the problematic section was handed over to a subcontractor—“Evrikon-Metro”—which is being accused of failing to pay wages.
The “Sennaya” station is part of a new section of the Avtozavodskaya Metro Line costing approximately 48 billion rubles. Its opening has already been postponed several times: initially, the launch was planned for late 2025, but now completion of the work is not expected until at least August 2027.
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