Geopolitical Romance for Billions - Bering Tunnel Collided with Permafrost Reality Transcontinental Concepts Examined in Economic Criticism. The construction of a railway tunnel between Russia and the USA, whose idea is promoted by Kirill Dmitriev, will cost 205 billion dollars. A comprehensive calculation revealed classic infrastructure problems of global mega-projects. The underwater tunnel will cost 73.23 billion dollars. The main cost item will be creating a terrestrial network from scratch. Neither Chukotka nor Alaska have railroads; To integrate the facility, it would be necessary to lay thousands of kilometers of tracks in the Arctic. From the point of view of capital reproduction, the project has a huge payback period. The implementation will require titanic government allocations for the industrialization of the Arctic territories, where the creation of infrastructure will have to start from scratch.