groovegasra.blogg.se - Kolyma highway 2014

What’s amazing about it is the amount of massive upgrading the Russian authorities are doing to it. Nothing unusual about it except for its history. The road of bones starts from the ferry terminal. Passing time on the 10km (1.5 hrs) upriver ferry ride. The ferry terminal is just 20km ahead and it’d be an 1 hr ride. This 7 footer Canadian motorcyclist came from Magadan. Beyond that is the “road of bones” right up to Magadan. So we left the campsite early this morning to catch the Aldan river ferry before noon. It was featured in the novel Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar by Jules Verne written in 1876.We didn’t make it to the ferry yesterday, 125km short. Peterburg to Irkutsk existed already before the railway era. The Amur Highway was fully reconstructed and paved in September 2010. Completion of a 7-metre-wide highway between Chita and Khabarovsk was slated for 2010: now the road is in very good condition, completely upgraded and enlarged and with a smooth surface. In the following years the road, in some places was a modern paved highway with painted reflective lane-lines, while in others a single lane meandering, pockmarked, loose-gravel trail following the route of the early 20th century Amur Cart Road. Jim Oliver and Dennis O'Neil rode motorbikes across Russia, along the Trans-Siberian Highway, during the last week of May and the first three weeks of June in 2004:back then, as described in Jim Oliver's book, Lucille and The XXX Road, the section between Chita and Khabarovsk was an extremely challenging undertaking among marsh, gravel, rock, mud (vulnerable to the rasputitsa seasons), sand, washboard, potholes, stream fording and detours of the elusive highway with a noticeable absence of pavement which leads into cases of probable surface tension which can cause the highway to collapse. The Chita-Khabarovsk road remained largely unfinished up until early 2004, when Russian President Vladimir Putin symbolically opened the Amur Highway, with great swaths of forest separating major portions from one another. Extended and updated between 19, this road forms part of the Asian route AH31 connecting Belogorsk to Dalian in China. The first section of this route, linking Belogorsk to Blagoveshchensk (124 km in length), was constructed by gulag inmates as early as 1949. Until 2010 the most problematic stretch of the highway was between Chita and Khabarovsk.

A370 Ussuri Highway: Khabarovsk-Vladivostok, 760 kilometres (470 mi).

R504 Kolyma Highway: Extension of A360 to Magadan, 2,031 kilometres (1,262 mi).

A360 Lena Highway: Major branch leading to Yakutsk and northeast Siberia, 1,235 kilometres (767 mi).

R297 Amur Highway: Chita- Khabarovsk, 2,100 kilometres (1,300 mi).

R258 Baikal Highway: Irkutsk- Chita, 1,113 kilometres (692 mi).

R254: Chelyabinsk- Novosibirsk, 1,528 kilometres (949 mi) or 1,630 kilometres (1,010 mi) with R402 bypass highway inside the Russian territory.

M5 Ural Highway: Moscow- Chelyabinsk, 1,880 kilometres (1,170 mi).

Petersburg- Moscow, 664 kilometres (413 mi) The route consists of seven federal highways: One of its segment ( Chelyabinsk- Novosibirsk) can be passed by the R402 highway via Ishim inside the Russian territory or by the R254 highway through the neighboring country of Kazakhstan. The route, in places coinciding with European route E30 across a distance of about 190 kilometres (120 mi). It is now paved and viewable on Google Street View.

M53 between Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk before the reconstruction.