From a bird's eye view, all the cities of the world look the same - like a spider web of lines between gray masses of buildings and green islands of parks. Apparently fascinated by this sight, the Yandex team decided to investigate the names and shapes of Russian streets. And we like big numbers, so from the Yandex research we have selected for you the 10 longest streets in Russia.
10. Vitebskoe highway, Smolensk - length: 16.4 km
So that you can better imagine the length of this chasse, let us clarify that according to statistics average street length is 708 meters... So one Vitebsk highway can accommodate as many as 23 ordinary streets!
This road is rather old, it existed already in the 18th century. Several ancient buildings that have survived to this day serve as evidence of this. The highway overlooks 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 the Moscow highway is not located in Moscow, or even in the Moscow region. However, for Russia, this is more the rule than the exception. All over the country, the most varied "Moscow" streets are scattered in abundance. In general, their number reaches almost one and a half thousand.
In general, in this respect, Samara is perhaps the most unoriginal city in Russia - only 17% of the streets there have names that are unlike other names.
Moskovskoe shosse is the main road of the city, which cuts Samara into the western and eastern parts, and outside the city limits it enters the federal highway M5 "Ural". It stretches from Moscow to Chelyabinsk.
In turn, the M5 is part of a gigantic Asian route that runs through almost the entire Eurasian continent. It links Eastern Europe with Southeast Asia - from Russia to South Korea.
8. Street Prospectors, Voronezh - 17.3 km
Voronezh residents, like Muscovites, value space, so there are very few very short streets (less than 100 meters). They are no more than 2% of the total - the least in Russia. However, so that residents of Voronezh and visitors to the city do not get bored, a fairly large part (8%) of these long streets is bizarrely curved, so at the beginning of the street it is difficult to imagine where you will find yourself at its end.
And although Iziskateley Street also has its own bends, but for the most part it almost exactly follows the fast-moving straight lines of the nearby M4 federal highway line, aka "Don".
7. East Bypass road, Murmansk - 17.6 km
By the centenary of the city in 2017, the administration pleased the residents with a new, updated version of the approach to Murmansk from the north. We are talking about the same East Bypass Road.
This is a solid four-lane highway with three interchanges, many bridges and overpasses, and fully illuminated, which is not so often in the northern part of Russia.
The funny thing is that there is no “Vostochno-Obyezdnaya” street in Murmansk as such, because five years ago it was renamed into the laconic “Entrance to Murmansk”.And the residents themselves simply call the road "Leningradka".
6. Northern Highway, Cherepovets - 17.8 km
One of the longest Russian roads skirts the city, as you might guess, from the north. On one side, rows of Soviet-style residential buildings are visible, and on the other, country houses interspersed with smart brick cottages with multi-colored roofs.
The highway originates in the area that the inhabitants of Cherepovets called "Plywood" - after the name of the plywood and furniture factory founded in the middle of the last century.
And after 17.8 km. The northern highway joins the A114 road connecting Vologda with Novaya Ladoga. Historically, this part of the city is replete with industrial enterprises, including such large ones as one of the main producers in the phosphate fertilizer market, the PhosAgro-Cherepovets plant.
5. Zagorodnoe highway, Orenburg - 18.9 km
For a long time, the longest street in Orenburg was part of the federal highway P239, connecting Kazan with Kazakhstan. Until last year, the city authorities built a southern bypass, which made it possible to save the townspeople from the dubious happiness of inhaling the exhaust gases of trucks rushing by.
However, Zagorodnoye Highway remains one of the busiest streets in the city.
4. Bypass highway, Togliatti - 20.2 km
The fourth place in the list of the longest roads in Russia is modestly occupied by the toiler road, the hard worker road. The highway goes around the city in a wide arc and connects it with the federal highway M5 ("Ural"). And ordinary Togliatti residents travel along Obvodny to the Avtozavodsky district and the nearby capital of the region, Samara.
The track itself is wide, quite comfortable, although, as usual, the quality of the surface leaves much to be desired. The views are also not striking - the usual plains of central Russia, interspersed with traditional Soviet-style buildings.
3. Berdskoe highway, Novosibirsk - 20.4 km
Like many other streets in the rating of the longest Russian streets, Berdskoe Highway is just a part of a long federal highway connecting Novosibirsk with the Asian countries of the Eurasian continent.
The Chuisky tract - this is the name of this route - goes through the Altai Territory to Mongolia, and from where it goes to China and Pakistan. However, despite the importance of this route, the Russian part of the route was completely asphalted relatively recently - only 12 years ago.
Berdskoe highway runs through quite beautiful places: on the right, drivers and passengers can admire the Ob and the Ob Sea, and on the left lie the green bushes of Akademgorodok.
By the way, by the number of short cozy streets less than 100 meters long, Novosibirsk is also among the leaders. Their number in the city compared to the rest of the country is quite large - 5% of the total.
2. Varshavskoe highway, Moscow - 22.5 km
Varshavskoe shosse is a relatively new street for Moscow. It was founded in the middle of the 19th century by order of the then emperor, Nicholas I, and then it got its name. Now this street is part of a huge transport belt connecting the capital of Russia with the Belarusian city of Brest and then going to Europe through Warsaw.
Even on the longest street in Moscow, there is the longest building in the city, lovingly nicknamed by the people "a recumbent skyscraper." It is not much less than a kilometer long.
And even if Moscow did not succeed in taking the very first place in the length of the street, in many ways it still remains ahead of all Russia.
- It is in this city that there are the most long streets (if instead of the top 10 you count the top 100).
- At the same time, Moscow has the least number of streets per resident - and this is understandable, given such and such a length.
- Very short streets (less than 100 meters) in the capital of our Motherland are also very few in comparison with Russia as a whole - no more than 2%.
And Moscow is also distinguished by unique names. Whereas in other cities, Lenin, Central and Soviet streets dominate, occasionally diluted with some original English alley, 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. Eastern Bypass has been in the stage of permanent construction and reconstruction for a long time. They began to refine it back in 1998. Then it was assumed that construction and reconstruction will take place in four stages.
Now, twenty years later, the Bypass has barely reached the second stage. The builders themselves argue that the low speed of reconstruction is to blame for the relief of increased complexity, 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 the city to work and back.
Every day the Eastern Bypass passes 20 thousand cars. As a result, there should be a wide and convenient transport corridor connecting Perm with the regions of the country located to the north. In the meantime, five kilometers of the Bypass route cost the Perm Territory almost a billion rubles.