500 KV "NIZHNEANGARSKAYA — UST-KUT" HV LINE No. 1 supplies electricity to BAM-2 (part of the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway), which helps to increase trade between Russia’s west and east and its strategic partners based in Asia. Trunk infrastructure development is one of Russia’s main national projects to implement until 2024. It aims at boosting the economy in the eastern part of the country through energy and transport projects.