It was from this direction that the dog-Crimean Khan threatened Moscow.
Now the accents have changed, and it is Moscow that threatens Crimea with the dominance of holidaymakers.
Turned off the Moscow Ring Road and got on the highway
The highway is concrete, it’s really easier to fly low on it than to drive fast, feeling every joint with your ass
It is illuminated to Tula, to which I express my deep gratitude, this section is not in the west and pass at night.
Highways usually bypass sights, which is why there are few crossed cities on M-2 and something especially remarkable ancient.
So, only strange bunkers near the Oka.
The Oka is a strange river for me.
I don’t know anything about rivers at all - they were never present in my mind - they were not dreamed, they were not perceived by the road. They were more of a threat. Like something from a completely different world for me, where any river that is not the Dnieper is a threat.
The Oka was the most dangerous river for me - as a symbol of turning from South to North, from dynamics to statics, a symbol of stagnation as death.
Now my old attitude is gone, but the new one has not yet formed.
For the first time I saw the Oka safe in Konstantinovo - it turns out that the river may well be combined with the forest-steppe, and this calmed me down.
In the Moscow region, the forest-steppe begins just beyond the Oka.
In the meantime, there are forests and monsters.
Russia is a country of inept life.
A country of people who launch ships into space, and at the same time grunt on a village bucket and iron their clothes with a cast-iron iron.
And as one said smart man- "The trouble with Russians is that they are white."
I agree with this - if Russians were non-white, blacks or Mongoloids - much would be easier.
And so - white faces, and involuntarily only on the basis of this you begin to consider yourself a European, and this is a big, big delusion.
Everything is being built as if tomorrow Mamai will come with a war and burn everything to hell.
Construction in patches and without the desire to live in one place for generations.
"Since the houses burned down
It's easy for them to live in the world ... "
Moreover, in the Moscow region it is somehow the most lax - the transit situation plays a disservice - either to nail down to Moscow, or to stay like that - in a post about Krasnogorsk, I talked a little about this
Bypass Eagle.
Urban industrial and railway cul-de-sacs cling to it, for which I have a fetish since my childhood as a miner spent in Dimitrov
Meets different animals at gas stations
They entered the Kursk region
The track, by the way, is quite tolerable.
There is, of course, sometimes, "heroes of the dig," as I call them, but in general, everything is divine
Fatezh.
In fact, the only city by the highway intersected not tangentially
70 years of liberation.
As they were released, nothing happened here for 70 years.
Unless they built an overhead crossing.
Post office.
I love Russian Post offices in different villages - they are usually small, they sell along with stamps all sorts of tights and seeds, they work a couple of hours a day.
Such, the gate to the world, in a beggarly position.
Go to the Russian Post website and see photos of different post offices - there are gorgeous selection photo mails from almost all regions of the country.
Eh, to privatize the mail - I would make a Klondike from the mail.
We are entering the Belgorod region.
I don’t know her much, but everyone has been pouring enthusiastic reviews about her for a long time - they say that there, of course, the Orthodoxy of the brain is rushing from all the cracks, but then, they say, everything is clean, tidy, colorful and in general Europe - is that true?
My impressions are mixed - there is like everywhere else, but there are many really perfect European look settlements, with an arranged structure
AT general theme Belgorod and the region is not disclosed, perhaps I will be able to reveal it later.
Closer to the border, solid car insurance booths begin.
It's funny, between Belgorod and Kharkov, two large cities in two different countries, only 80 kilometers.
The competition is big, that's why they serve politely, coax with sweets.
Sentences in Ukrainian appear smoothly.
Your obedient servant hung menacingly on the girl, making sure not to be thrown over, but the menacing face was not needed
The border of the historical homeland appeared.
I was greeted by family members.
The Russian border guards somewhat calmed down in rudeness.
Ukrainian border guards are all the same pranksters.
"Sho, Alexander Vladimirovich, have you decided to visit your homeland again?" Thought.
Border guards' handwriting, it turns out, is no less illegible than that of doctors.
Further stretched the roads of Ukraine.
"I'm home" - I thought.
I always think about this when crossing the border of Ukraine, which neither a Russian passport nor 15 years of living in a foreign land interferes with.
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Roads of Russia: federal highway M2 The unofficial name of the federal highway M2 - Simferop...
Federal highway M2 "Crimea" (Simferopol highway) - highway federal significance.
Moscow - Tula - Orel - Kursk - Belgorod - the state border with Ukraine. Is an integral part European route E 105.
The original version of the highway as a route was put into operation in 1950.
On the territory of Ukraine, the road continues, and goes through Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, and ends in Simferopol or Sevastopol.
Usually the route is used by vacationers from Moscow and other cities to get to the southern coast of Crimea.
The length of the motorway is 720 kilometers.
The width of the highway M-2 "Crimea" is 8-10 meters.
Passes through the territory of Moscow, Tula, Oryol, Kursk and Belgorod regions.
The highway "Crimea" has detours major cities: Tula (48 km), Mtsensk (24 km), Orel (26 km), Kursk (28 km), Belgorod (24 km). 
The road passes through hilly, rough terrain. A number of sites require heightened attention driver:
- with steep descents and ascents
- with sharp turns.
The road crosses significant rivers: the Oka (near the town of Serpukhov), the Ulu (near the town of Tula), the Plav (near the town of Plavok), the Zusha (near the town of Mtsensk), the Oka (near the town of Orel), the Seim (near the town of Kursk), Seversky Donets(near Belgorod).
Bridges over water barriers with a length of more than 50 meters have a carrying capacity of 60-80 tons.
Route
The M2 motorway starts at the intersection Warsaw highway and MKAD, then passes through the territory of the Moscow region east of the cities Shcherbinka, Podolsk, Klimovsk, Chekhov, Serpukhov in the form of a modern highway without crossroads, pedestrian crossings and railway crossings on the same level, at least 2 lanes in each direction with a dividing strip.
Further, the motorway goes through the territory Tula region, bypasses Tula from the west and, as a highway, ends at the intersection with the P132 Tula-Kaluga highway in the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlements of Pomogalovo, Zhirovka, turning into a regular 2-3-lane road.
The road continues through the area Oryol region, bypassing each in its own way bypass road the cities of Mtsensk and Oryol east side and town. Chrome from the western. Next at the The trosna contains the A142/E 391 branch to Zheleznogorsk and Kalinovka (further on to Kyiv) and turns south.
The road continues through the area Belgorod region in southeast direction, east of the city The builder bypasses Belgorod along the bypass road from the west and then goes southwest to the state border with Ukraine. 
Start
(28 km)
Shcherbinka
(38 km)
Podolsk
(47 km)
Klimovsk
(71 km)
Chekhov
(98 km)
Serpukhov
(181 km)
Tula
(242 km)
Plavsk
(313 km)
Mtsensk
(361 km)
Eagle
(403 km)
Kromy
(518 km)
Kursk
(588 km)
Oboyan
(669 km)
Belgorod
(720 km)
State border with Ukraine.
On the territory of Ukraine, the highway continues as the M-20 motorway to Kharkov and M-18 Kharkiv - Zaporozhye - Simferopol - Yalta.
Ensuring quality transport communication in the direction Moscow - Crimea already long time is an pressing issue. It acquired particular relevance after joining Crimean peninsula to Russian Federation. One of the main roads providing communication between Moscow and Simferopol is the M2 highway. Let's take a look at the history of this highway and find out about its pressing problems.
General characteristics
Highway M2 "Crimea" is part of the European route E105 Kirkenes (Norway) - Yalta. It stretches from the capital of Russia to the multilateral automobile checkpoint "Nekhoteevka" in Kursk region on the Russian-Ukrainian border. Runs through the territories of five administrative divisions: Moscow region, Tula, Oryol, Kursk, Belgorod. Total length trails - 720 kilometers. From Moscow to Tula, it is a high-speed highway with a length of 155 kilometers. Further, the route to the Ukrainian border itself is an ordinary highway. There are six gas stations along the route. The average distance between them is 73 kilometers.
Coating quality
The highway M-2 "Crimea" throughout its length has an asphalt concrete hard surface. It seems to be of better quality on the high-speed section of the route from Moscow to Tula. The covering in the Belgorod region is also well preserved. But on the territory of the Kursk region, the road has the most various defects. At the same time, there is a constant patching of the road surface. The width of the carriageway varies from eight to ten meters.
The quality of the coating can also be judged by the photos posted in this review.
Route history
The Crimean tract has been known since the Middle Ages. Initially, it began on the territory of the modern Dnipropetrovsk region in Ukraine and stretched to the peninsula. It was a trade road along which salt was imported from the Crimea to the territory of Ukraine, and reverse direction- grain and some other products.
With the accession of the Hetmanate to the Russian kingdom trade route began to reach out to Moscow itself. AT mid-nineteenth century, a road was built that connected Moscow and Kharkov. Immediately in post-war years created route No. 4 Moscow - Simferopol, passing through Kharkov, which already had a hard asphalt surface.
Construction of the M2 highway
The idea of building a modern highway Moscow - Crimea arose with the holding of the Summer Olympics in 1980 in the Soviet Union. It was planned that this would be a high-speed analogue of an existing road. However, in many areas new track M2 - reconstruction of the old highway. But by the beginning of the Olympics, it was only possible to build a segment that passed through the territory of the Moscow Region, and even then not completely. By 1983, the route was extended only to Serpukhov. At the same time, the construction of the Trosna-Tula section began.
By the end of the 80s most of work on the reconstruction of the old route was not yet completed. Since the beginning of the 90s, the project has been largely curtailed, and the reconstruction was carried out only from time to time, episodically. Actually the motorway, which was planned to be built to the Crimea, was brought only to Tula. She had a segment of 155 km.
The further fate of the track
With liquidation Soviet Union highway M2 Moscow - Crimea has lost its former transport and economic importance. In fact, it was divided between two states: Russia and Ukraine. None of these countries this direction traffic was not a priority, the traffic load was significantly reduced. Concerning Russian authorities paid more attention to the development of roads in the Volga region and Siberia. It was from the moment of the collapse of the USSR that the highway acquired its current name in the classification of Russian highways - the M2 "Crimea" highway.
During the 90s of the XX century, in fact, no work on the reconstruction of the road was carried out. By the end of the first decade of the 21st century, a 12 km long section was reconstructed. Now the motorway reached the intersection with the R-132.
prospects
In 2012, the administration of the Tula region announced that it intended to initiate further construction of the highway up to the Ukrainian border. At present, we can say that the M-2 highway in the Moscow-Tula section has been completely reconstructed. Further repair of the highway is still in question. Actually, from Tula to the Ukrainian border and further across the territory of Ukraine, the highway is a road built in the post-war years.
It is planned that in the near future the M2 highway will become paid. Rather, they will charge for travel on the site from the 21st to the 108th kilometer. This section of the highway, known as the Simferopol highway, is located entirely on the territory of the Moscow region. It is planned to build twenty-one points where tolls will be collected.
At present, the fate of the route is largely connected with foreign policy issues. On the one hand, after the annexation of Crimea to Russia in 2014, the M2 highway began to be regarded as more promising direction. But on the other hand, the significantly worsened relations between Ukraine and Russia have affected the fact that the traffic flow along the highway has significantly decreased. Thus, the M2 highway as the main transport direction when traveling to the Crimea can be considered only after the normalization of relations with Ukraine.
Route
The M2 highway originates in Moscow, more precisely, at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road and the Warsaw Highway. Before the intersection with MMK, the road has 3 traffic lanes in each direction. After MMK, the M2 highway narrows to two lanes. Then the highway crosses the "Big concrete".
Then the path of the route passes through the bridge along the Oka River, through the city of Serpukhov, and runs through the territory of the Tula region. At the 155th kilometer, the motorway breaks off, and an ordinary highway goes to Tula, which is a section of the old Moscow-Simferopol highway. The motorway itself goes around Tula from the west and ends at the intersection with the Kaluga-Ryazan road.
At this point, the main highway ends, and further towards the border with Ukraine, the Moscow-Crimea road is an ordinary highway. After Tula, the path runs through the territory of the Oryol region, bypassing such big cities, like Orel and Mtsensk, and crosses the borders of the Kursk region. After the road goes around the city of Kursk, it runs through the territory of the Belgorod region, administrative center which, Belgorod, also remains on the sidelines. The end of the route is the state border of Russia and Ukraine, namely the multilateral automobile checkpoint "Nekhoteevka".
Ukrainian section of the road
Although the Ukrainian section of the Moscow-Simferopol road is the actual continuation of the M2 highway, it officially bears a different name - M20. This road runs from the Ukrainian multilateral automobile checkpoint "Goptovka" to Kharkov. After that, the route takes the name M-29 and goes to Novomoskovsk in the Dnipropetrovsk region as highway. After that, the highway number changes to M-18, and it stretches to the borders of Crimea. On the territory of the Crimea track goes through Simferopol to Yalta. According to the Ukrainian classification, it is called 35A002, and according to the Russian - P20. It is in Yalta that the European route E105 ends.
720 km long, leading from Moscow and ending in Yalta. Most often, this route is used by vacationers from Moscow, Tula, Orel, Kursk, Belgorod (the highway passes through these cities) to get to
Like all highways in Russia and Ukraine, this highway also has its own characteristics and problem areas, so let's talk about its individual sections.
Moscow-Serpukhov
The first hundred kilometers of the Moscow region are the most well-maintained and well-groomed part of the Crimea highway. This is a modern highway with two lanes for each direction, no intersections, and the roadbed is flat, repaired frequently.
The M2 highway on the territory of the Moscow region passes a little to the east of Podolsk, Chekhov, Serpukhov, Klimovsk.
Items qualified medical care are located on the 36th, 51st and 74th kilometers of the highway. There are many cafes, gas stations, hotels and shops along the way.
Serpukhov-Tula
This section covers 91 kilometers. here it narrows to one lane in each direction, but the road surface is still of high quality. The first problematic area is the bridge across the Oka, where traffic jams often accumulate. It does not make sense to go around it - the nearest bridge is far enough away.
Traffic jams are also found on the Tula bypass road, so it's better to go through the city - it turns out faster, and you can see the sights.
There are many steep descents and ascents in this section, so warriors need to be especially careful.
Tula-Orel
The M2 highway runs here for 190 kilometers. The road is still narrow, with acceptable pavement quality and large quantity turns onto secondary roads. Passing a sharp turn at the 268th kilometer of the road requires special care.
The main problem of this section of the highway is deep roadsides without barriers.
Orel - Kursk
The distance between these cities along the motorway is 160 kilometers. The M 2 highway in the Kursk region is getting very bad due to the quality of the road surface. The road is narrow, many bumps, dangerous roadsides.
Kursk-Belgorod
The path along the highway takes 140 km. We have already talked about the quality of roads in the Kursk region. Particularly difficult in this regard is the section of the road - 30 kilometers from the village of Medvenka to the city of Oboyan.
In the Belgorod region, the situation is improving significantly - the coating again becomes even and practically free of defects. In some places, the M2 highway is again expanding to two lanes.
Belgorod - Nekhoteevka
This section to the border with Ukraine is 38 kilometers. The track becomes simply gorgeous - wide, with new asphalt. There are often traffic jams near Nekhoteevka, which is associated with the passage of the border post and customs.
So do not break the rules, stop in time to rest, and then a long trip to the Crimea will bring only pleasure and a lot of new experiences.
4,2 (127 votes) M-2Highway M-2 "Crimea" (Simferopol highway)- a federal road in Russia. It starts in Moscow, passes through the cities: Tula, Orel, Kursk, Belgorod and ends at state border with Ukraine at the Nekhoteevka checkpoint. It continues through the territory of Ukraine under the number M-20. It is an integral part of the European route E 105.
The total length is 720 km.
The stationary traffic police post is located in locality Inshinsky in the Leninsky district of the Tula region at 192 km of the route.
The road is popular with tourists who want to relax in the summer on the Black Sea coast. For this reason, during the holiday season, the congestion of the route increases greatly. The infrastructure is well developed. At the Nekhoteevka checkpoint in summer period there are huge queues.
When driving, you need to make rest stops. Many drivers neglect this rule, often fall asleep at the wheel and cause an accident.
On the way, the route crosses many bridges over rivers. Part of the road passes through hilly terrain, there are steep descents, ascents and sharp turns.
Cities: Tula, Mtsensk, Orel, Kursk and Belgorod have bypasses, which it is advisable to use in order to avoid passing through an unfamiliar city.
Number of lanes
For 8 km from the M-4 highway there are 8 lanes for traffic, then along the entire length the road has 4 lanes, two in each direction.
State
road to good condition: the canvas is flat, on separate sections there is a slight rut.
gas stations
79 km – Tatneft (to/from Moscow)
82 km – Lukoil (to/from Moscow)
89 km - Shell (to Moscow)
94 km – Gazpromneft (to/from Moscow)
142 km - Lukoil (to / from Moscow, cafe (right and left side))
170 km - Shell (from Moscow)
195 km - Lukoil (to Moscow)
231 km - Lukoil (to Moscow)
540 km - Lukoil (from Moscow)
687 km - Lukoil (to Moscow)
702 km - Lukoil (to Moscow)
Attractions
Tula - Kremlin (XVI century), Church of the Annunciation (1692), Assumption and Epiphany Cathedrals, Cathedral of All Saints (1776- 1800), Tula State Museum weapons, the museum "Tula samovars", the museum "Tula gingerbread", the house-museum of L. N. Tolstoy Yasnaya Polyana, Central Park of Culture and Leisure named after P.P. Belousova;
Oryol - the Orel Regional Museum of Local Lore (1897), the Museum of M. M. Bakhtin, the Museum of I. S. Turgenev, the City Park of Culture and Recreation (1822);
Belgorod - Belgorod State Historical and Archaeological Museum (1924), Belgorod State Art Museum(1983), Diorama Museum " Battle of Kursk. Belgorod direction, Preobrazhensky Cathedral(1813), Assumption-Nikolaev Cathedral (1709), Smolensk Cathedral (1727), Intercession Church (1791).
