M5 highway (Russia)
# M5 highway (Russia)

The Russian route M5 (also known as the Ural Highway) is a major trunk road running across a distance of 1879 km from Moscow to the Ural Mountains. It is part of the European route E30 and the Trans-Siberian Highway. The section from Yekaterinburg to Chelyabinsk is also part of AH7, and the section from Chelyabinsk to Moscow is also part of AH6.

The highway starts at the crossing of the Moscow Ring Road and Volgogradsky Prospekt and runs southeast through Lyubertsy, crossing the Oka River at Kolomna. The Ural Highway continues across nine regions of Russia, passing through a dangerous mountain stretch before terminating at Chelyabinsk. The road continues from Chelyabinsk further east to Omsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk as the Russian route R254.

## Route

    0 km Moscow
    23 km Chulkovo
    44 km Bronnitsy
    70 km Stepanshchino
    93 km Kolomna
    116 km Lukhovitsy
    Ryazan Oblast
    181 km Ryazan
    302 km Putyatino
    345 km Shatsk
    Mordvinia
    440 km Zubova Polyana
    Penza Oblast
    472 km Spassk
    525 km Nizhny Lomov
    593 km Mokshan
    634 km Penza
    706 km Chaadayevka
    745 km Kuznetsk
    761 km Yevlashchevo
    Ulyanovsk Oblast
    822 km Novospasskoye
    Samara Oblast
    887 km Syzran
    930 km Mezhdurechensk
    Bridge across the Volga
    972 km Tolyatti
    1032 km Crossing A300 near Samara
    1043 km Krasny Yar
    1115 km Sukhodol
    1178 km Staraya Balykla
    Orenburg Oblast
    1204 km Severnoye
    Tatarstan
    1271 km Bavly
    Bashkortostan
    1285 km Oktyabrsky, Bashkortostan
    1324 km Serafimovsky
    1392 km Kob-Pokrovka
    1459 km Ufa
    Chelyabinsk Oblast
    1625 km Yuryuzan
    1759 km Miass
    1777 km Chebarkul
    1855 km Chelyabinsk, Route A310, Route R254

## Gallery

* Reconstruction of M5 highway in Moscow Oblast, December 2020.
