From a bird's eye view, all cities in the world look the same - like a web of lines between gray masses of buildings and green islands of parks. Apparently enchanted by this spectacle, the Yandex team decided to study the names and shapes of Russian streets. And we like big numbers, so we have selected for you the 10 longest streets in Russia from the Yandex study.
10. Vitebsk highway, Smolensk – length: 16.4 km
To give you a better idea of the length of this chasse, let us clarify that, according to statistics, the average length of a street is 708 meters. So, one Vitebsk highway can accommodate as many as 23 ordinary streets!
This road is quite old, it already existed in the 18th century. Several old buildings that have survived to this day serve as evidence of this. The highway comes out onto the federal highway P120, which runs from the city of Orel to the border with Belarus.
9. Moscow highway, Samara – 17.2 km
It seems strange that Moskovskoe Shosse is not located in Moscow or even in the Moscow Region. However, for Russia this is more the rule than the exception. The country is full of various "Moscow" streets. In total, their number reaches almost one and a half thousand.
Samara, in general, in this regard, is perhaps the most unoriginal city in Russia - there are only 17% streets there that have names that are different from others.
Moskovskoe Shosse is the city's main road, which cuts Samara into its western and eastern parts, and outside the city limits it becomes part of the federal highway M5 "Ural". It stretches from Moscow to Chelyabinsk.
In turn, the M5 is part of a giant Asian route that runs through almost the entire Eurasian continent. It connects Eastern Europe with Southeast Asia – from Russia to South Korea.
8. Izyskateley Street, Voronezh – 17.3 km
Voronezh residents, like Muscovites, value space, so there are very few very short streets (less than 100 meters) there. There are no more than 2% of them out of the total number - the least in Russia. However, so that Voronezh residents and visitors to the city do not get bored, a fairly large part (8%) of these long streets are bizarrely curved, so that at the beginning of the street it is difficult to imagine where you will end up at its end.
And although Izyskateley Street also has its own bends, for the most part it almost exactly follows the rapid straight lines of the nearby federal highway M4, also known as the "Don".
7. Vostochno-Ob'ezdnaya Road, Murmansk - 17.6 km
For the city's centenary in 2017, the administration pleased residents with a new, updated version of the approach to Murmansk from the north. We are talking about the same Eastern Bypass Road.
It is a solid four-lane highway with three interchanges, many bridges and overpasses, and is fully illuminated, which is not very common in northern Russia.
The funniest thing is that there is no such thing as "Vostochno-Obyezdnaya" street in Murmansk, because five years ago it was renamed to the laconic "Entrance to the city of Murmansk". And the residents themselves simply call the road "Leningradka".
6. Northern Highway, Cherepovets – 17.8 km
One of Russia's longest roads skirts the city, as you might guess, from the north. On one side are rows of Soviet-style apartment buildings, and on the other, summer houses interspersed with elegant brick cottages with multi-colored roofs.
The highway starts in the area that residents of Cherepovets nicknamed “Plywood” – after the name of the plywood and furniture factory founded in the middle of the last century.
And after 17.8 km. Severnoye Shosse merges with the A114 road, connecting Vologda with Novaya Ladoga. Historically, this part of the city abounds with industrial enterprises, including such large ones as one of the main producers on the phosphorus fertilizer market, the PhosAgro-Cherepovets plant.
5. Zagorodnoye Highway, Orenburg – 18.9 km
For a long time, the longest street in Orenburg was part of the federal highway R239, connecting Kazan with Kazakhstan. Until last year, the city authorities built a southern bypass, which saved city residents from the dubious happiness of inhaling exhaust fumes from passing trucks.
However, Zagorodnoye Shosse remains one of the busiest streets in the city.
4. Obvodnoe highway, Tolyatti – 20.2 km
The fourth place in the list of the longest roads in Russia is modestly occupied by the road-worker, the road-worker. The highway goes around the city in a wide arc and connects it with the federal highway M5 (Ural). And ordinary Togliatti residents get to the Avtozavodsky district and the nearby capital of the region, Samara, via Obvodny.
The track itself is wide and quite comfortable, although, as usual, the quality of the surface leaves much to be desired. The views are also not impressive - the usual plains of central Russia, interspersed with traditional Soviet-type buildings.
3. Berdskoe highway, Novosibirsk – 20.4 km
Like many other streets in the ranking of the longest Russian streets, Berdskoye Highway is just a part of an extended federal highway connecting Novosibirsk with the Asian countries of the Eurasian continent.
The Chuisky Tract – that’s the name of this route – goes through the Altai region to Mongolia, and from there it goes to China and Pakistan. However, despite the importance of this route, the Russian part of the route was completely paved relatively recently – just 12 years ago.
The Berdskoye Highway runs through some pretty beautiful places: on the right, drivers and passengers can admire the Ob and the Ob Sea, and on the left, there are the green thickets of Akademgorodok.
By the way, Novosibirsk is also among the leaders in the number of short cozy streets less than 100 meters long. Their number in the city, compared to the rest of the country, is quite large - 5% of the total.
2. Varshavskoe shosse, Moscow – 22.5 km
Varshavskoe Shosse is a relatively new street for Moscow. It was founded in the mid-19th century by order of the then Emperor, Nicholas I, and received its name at the same time. Now this street is part of a huge transport belt connecting the capital of Russia with the Belarusian city of Brest and then going out to Europe through Warsaw.
Also on the longest street in Moscow is the city's longest building, affectionately nicknamed by the people "the lying skyscraper." It is slightly less than a kilometer long.
And even if Moscow did not manage to take first place in terms of street length, in many ways it still remains ahead of the rest of Russia.
- It is in this city that there are the most long streets (if you count the top 100 instead of the top 10).
- At the same time, Moscow has the fewest streets per resident – and this is understandable, given its length.
- There are also very few very short streets (less than 100 meters) in the capital of our country compared to Russia as a whole – no more than 2%.
Moscow also has unique names. If in other cities the streets of Lenin, Central and Soviet predominate, occasionally diluted by some original English Alley, then Moscow can boast of the rarity of its names: 51% of them are not found anywhere else in Russia.
1. Eastern Bypass, Perm – 22.6 km
The longest street in Russia is 22.6 km long. The Eastern Bypass has been in the stage of permanent construction and reconstruction for a long time. They started to improve it back in 1998. At that time, it was assumed that the construction and reconstruction would take place in four stages.
Now, twenty years later, the Bypass has barely reached the second stage. The builders themselves claim that the low speed of reconstruction is due to the difficult terrain, the abundance of groundwater and harsh weather conditions. Allegedly, the road can only be built in the warm season.
But even now, despite the chronic unfinished construction, Obkhod Street has become one of the main transport arteries along which residents of nearby villages travel to and from work in the city.
Every day, the Eastern Bypass passes 20 thousand passenger cars. The result should be a wide and convenient transport corridor connecting Perm with the northern regions of the country. In the meantime, five kilometers of the Bypass cost Perm Krai almost a billion rubles.
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