Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the PRC XI Jinping held a videoconference launched the supply of gas from Russia by pipeline " Power of Siberia ". "Permission (to open the tap.- Approx. Ed.) "- said the Russian President during the launching ceremony." Let's go, " confirmed its Chinese counterpart. "Power of Siberia" - a gas pipeline to transport raw materials from the Irkutsk and Yakutia gas production centers to the Russian consumers in the far East and to China (the Eastern route). on the first day of the week opened a section length of about 2,200 kilometers from the Chayanda field in Yakutia to Blagoveshchensk (border with China). at the 2nd stage of the launch fragment with a length of about 800 km from Kovykta to Chayanda. So, the Total length of the "Power of Siberia" will be about 3000 kilometers. "Gazprom" and Chinese CNPC signed a 30-year contract on annual supplies of 38 billion cubic meters of gas in may 2014. Total contract Price is about 400 billion dollars. the construction of the pipeline took more than five years on a cost of 1, 1 trillion rubles. in 2020, Gazprom could deliver to China up to five billion cubic meters of fuel in 2021 - up to ten in 2022 - up to fifteen. Design capacity of 38 billion cubic meters is expected to reach by 2025. The head of the organization Alexei Miller in June reported that Moscow and Beijing are discussing the possibility of supplying additional six billion cubic meters of gas per year. <span style="color:darkgray