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Kazakhstan backbone FOCL: western and southern directions

Construction of a backbone FOCL in the ground across eight sections of two directions - in five months.

942 km in the ground
Geography
Western and Southern Kazakhstan
Timeline
August - December 2025
Client
Freedom Holding · national backbone network
942 km
built in total
577 km
western direction, 5 sections
365 km
southern direction, 3 sections
5 mo.
works completion period
  • Mechanized cable laying in the ground to a depth of 120 cm
  • Obstacle crossings - HDD and pipe jacking
Western direction 577 km
  • Uralsk - Ozinki 105 km
  • Zhympity - Uralsk 144 km
  • Zhympity - Novonadezhdinka 145 km
  • Kobda - Novonadezhdinka 78 km
  • Kobda - Aktobe 105 km
Southern direction 365 km
  • Shelek - Khorgos 208 km
  • Shelek - Karkara 15 km
  • Ungirtas - Korday 142 km

Result Both directions were handed over as part of the national backbone network; the sections provide exits to the borders in the west and southeast of the country.

ОЗИНКИURALSKAKTOBEKORDAYUNGIRTASШЕЛЕКKARKARAKHORGOS
Built segments · Zhympity, Novonadezhdinka and Kobda - in the table above
Drone view: a mechanized column and an open FOCL trench in the steppe
Route in the ground · drone view
A Shantui cable-laying bulldozer with a cable drum on the route, crew laying cable
Mechanized column

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