Kirill Dmitriev, chief executive officer of Russia’s $10 billion RDIF investment fund and the Kremlin’s investment envoy to America, on Thursday proposed building a tunnel beneath the Bering Strait that would link Alaska with Russia’s Chukotka region.

Dmitriev suggested the tunnel could be named after Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Kirill based his proposal on Soviet Union documents from the 1960s presented to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) on Thursday by Alexander Darchiyev, Russia’s ambassador to the United States.

The documents mostly concerned the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, but one of them described Russia’s idea for a “Kennedy-Khruschev World Peace Bridge” that “could and should be built between Alaska and Russia at once.” Nikita Khrushch

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