Moscow Ring Road

Moscow Ring Road (MKAD)
Московская кольцевая автомобильная дорога
MKAD on Moscow map[1]
Route information
Length 108.9 km (67.7 mi)
Existed 1961 – present
Location
Major cities Moscow
Highway system
Russian Federal Highways

The Moscow Automobile Ring Road (Russian: Московская кольцевая автомобильная дорога, Moskovskaya Koltsevaya Avtomobilnaya Doroga), or MKAD (МКАД), is a ring road encircling the parts of the City of Moscow, the capital of Russia. The length of the road is 108.9 km (67.7 mi), and the number of exits is 35 (including 10 interchanges).

History

The growth of traffic in and around Moscow in the 1950s made the city planners realise Russia's largest metropolis needed a bypass to redirect incoming traffic from major roads that run through the city. Opened in 1961, the MKAD had four lanes of asphalt running 108.9 kilometres along the city borders. Although not yet a freeway, it featured interchanges at major junctions, very few traffic lights and a speed limit of 100 km/h (62 mph).

For a long time the MKAD served as the administrative boundary of Moscow city, until in the 1980s Moscow started annexing territory outside the beltway. In December 2002 Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo became the first Moscow Metro station that opened beyond the limits of MKAD.[2]

In 1995-1999 the road was widened from the initial four to ten lanes, while all intersections became grade-separated, bridges were built to accommodate pedestrians, traffic lights were removed, and a solid concrete barrier was installed in the median. In 2001 all slow-moving vehicles were banned from entering the MKAD and the renovated road received a freeway designation from the mayor's office.

Route

Distance
(approx.)		 Destinations Notes
0 km (Entuziastov shosse) — Nizhny Novgorod
2 km Pobeda ulitsa — Reutov, Ivanovskoe
4 km Ketcherskaya ulitsa, Nosovikhinskoye ulitsa — Balashikha, Elektrougli
7 km Moldagulovoy ulitsa, Novoukhtomskoe shosse
8 km Ryazansky prospekt, Lermontovsky prospekt — Lyubertsy
11 km (Volgogradsky prospekt, Novoryazanskoye shosse) — Bykovo Airport, Ryazan
14 km Verkhniye Polya ulitsa — Kotelniki
16 km Energetikov ulitsa, Kapotnya ulitsa — Dzerzhinsky, Kapotnya
20 km Besedinskoe shosse — Besedy
24 km Kashira Highway
27 km (Lipetskaya ulitsa) — Domodedovo Airport, Vidnoe, Kashira, Rostov-on-Don
30 km Bulatnikovo
33 km (Varshavskoe shosse) — Podolsk, Ostafyevo International Airport
35 km Polyany ulitsa — Butovo
38 km Paustovskogo ulitsa — Yasenevo
41 km A101, Profsoyuznaya ulitsa
45 km (Kievskoe shosse), Leninsky Avenue — Vnukovo Airport, Bryansk, Kiev
48 km Borovskoye shosse, Ozyornaya ulitsa
55 km (Minskoye shosse), Mozhayskoye shosse — Smolensk, Brest
56 km Gorbunova ulitsa — Nemchinovka
60 km A106 (Rublevo-Uspenskoye shosse) — Uspenskoye
61 km Rublevo-Uspenskoye shosse — Rublevo
63 km (Novorizhskoye shosse), Marshala Zhukova prospekt — Riga, Velikiye Luki
65 km Myankininsky prospekt — Myakinino
68 km A109 (Volokolamskoye shosse) — Dedovsk, Petrovo-Dalneye
72 km Novokurkinskoye shosse — Kurkino
74 km Svobody ulitsa, Molodezhnaya ulitsa — Kurkino
75 km (Leningradskoye Highway) — Sheremetyevo International Airport, Khimki, St. Petersburg
78 km
82 km A104 (Dmitrovskoye shosse) — Dubna, Dmitrov
85 km Altufyevskoye shosse — Veshki
91 km Ostashskaya ulitsa
95 km (Yaroslavskoye shosse) — Yaroslavl
103 km Khabarovskaya ulitsa — Abramtsevo
105 km A103 (Shchelkovskoye shosse) — Shchyolkovo

See also

Ring roads in Moscow:

Comparison to other ring roads encircling big cities:

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Map not including the new boroughs (2012) of Novomoskovsky and Troitsky
  2. ↑ "Bul'var Dmitriya Donskogo". Moscow Metro official site. Archived from the original on 13 March 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
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