Trans-Siberian Highway
Trans-Siberian Highway is a pan-continental road in Russia.
- Type: Pan-Continental
- Country: Russia
- Length: 11,000 km
- Opened: 2000s
Overview
The informal name for the M routes from St Petersburg through Moscow, Chelyabinsk and Irkutsk to Vladivostok, fully asphalted only in the 2000s. About 11,000 km, the longest national road route on earth. Fuel stops are their own logistics culture.
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