For more than a century, entrepreneurs and engineers have dreamed of building a tunnel connecting the eastern and western hemispheres under the Bering Strait — only to be brought up short by war ...

A bridge or a tunnel across the Bering Strait, a narrow body of water lying between American Alaska and Russian Chukotka, is an old idea that dates back to the late 19th century.

So the Bering Strait tunnel is, in effect, a fantastical plan at this point, tantamount to the space elevator—another proposed Russian-American collaboration spanning the 20th century—and will ...

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An Anchorage businessman has launched a new website to build interest and awareness for an idea to link Alaska and Siberia with a tunnel across the Bering Strait.

The idea of a tunnel under the Bering Strait is a century old. I can only imagine the alternate Cold War that would have resulted if there'd been a route directly to Russia from the US, or the ...

Proposed Bering Strait Tunnel would link Asia to North America."/> Image Courtesy of InterBering LLC The proposed 64-mile long tunnel would intersect with two islands to allow for ventilation and ...

At a Russian Academy of Science meeting in March, Vladimir Yakunin, the 66-year-old head of Russian Railways, unveiled detailed plans for what may seem like an impossible infrastructure project.

The tunnel -- which will include a highway, high-speed rail lines, pipelines, and high-power cables -- will run under the sea in the Bering Strait and connect Russia directly to Alaska.

A Bering Strait tunnel would not be as long relative to the other big tunnel projects. A Bering Strait tunnel would be about 103-kilometers (64 mi) long. The Bering strait is no deeper than 55 meters.

The project would include a tunnel under the Bering Strait and connect to the contiguous US via Wales, Alaska. Proposals to build a crossing predate the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war.