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Route m53 from where and where. Baikal (former highway M51, M53, M55). From Western Siberia to Eastern

Passes through the territory of Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Irkutsk regions and Krasnoyarsk Territory. Formal eastward extension of the track P254 "Irtysh", together with which it is part of the Asian route AH6

Departures from cities

  • Novosibirsk
    • North towards Tomsk and Kemerovo.
  • Tomsk
    • South towards Novosibirsk.
  • Kemerovo
    • West towards Novosibirsk
  • Mariinsk
    • East towards the cities of Achinsk and Krasnoyarsk
    • Southwest towards the cities of Kemerovo and Novosibirsk
  • Achinsk
    • East towards Krasnoyarsk
    • West towards the cities of Mariinsk and Kemerovo
  • Krasnoyarsk
    • East towards Kansk and Irkutsk.
    • West towards Achinsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo and Tomsk
  • Kansk
    • East towards Taishet
    • Southwest towards Krasnoyarsk
  • Nizhneudinsk
    • To the west towards the cities of Alzamay, Taishet, Kansk, Krasnoyarsk
    • Southeast towards Tulun and Irkutsk
  • Tulun
    • To the west towards the cities of Nizhneudinsk, Taishet, Kansk, Krasnoyarsk
    • Southeast towards the cities of Angarsk and Irkutsk
  • Irkutsk
    • North towards Krasnoyarsk

Main positions in the direction from Novosibirsk to Irkutsk

  • A traffic police post near the village of Sadovy on the outskirts of Novosibirsk. Very good position - 40 km / h limit, lighting, wide shoulder. It makes sense to select a car to Tomsk / Kemerovo or even further!
  • Interchange at the turn to Barlaksky. No positions! Everywhere there is a high bump, also with a gutter for water / mud drain along the edge of the roadway. The speed of the car is great! After 500 meters behind the junction there is a bus stop, you can try to vote in its acceleration lane.
  • Turn to Sokur. There are also no positions. Also a bump stop and after 300 meters there is a bus stop with a lane for regular transport.
  • Bypass Moshkovo. After 300 meters from the lapel, there is a slow railway crossing with lanterns to the city. It makes sense to walk to it.
  • Closed traffic police post near Bolotnoye. 126 km from Novosibirsk. If you have left Novosibirsk "on the local", then it makes sense to "put down roots" already here. The shoulder is wide, there are lights, there is no speed limit.
  • Turn to Tomsk. There are no lanterns. We vote near the entrance stele "Kemerovo Region". High-speed place. The post is 8 km away. you can drive up to the locale.
  • The traffic police post at the turn to Yurga. Limit 50 km / h. We pass behind the post where the bump stop ends, and we get up at the exit from the impoundment, in front of the last lamp. It makes no sense to agree closer to Kemerovo, but it is better to fish at least to Krasnoyarsk.
  • Topkinskaya roundabout (226 km). Beginning of the bypass Kemerovo. There are no lanterns. There is a sign "give way to those who are on the circle." If your car is going to Leninsk-Kuznetsky, it makes sense to drive with it to the end of this "South bypass" to Sukho-Rechenskaya junction and there to catch the checkpoint through the city. If your car turns in Kemerovo, then you can drive it to the center and get out of the city to Krasnoyarsk by public transport.
  • DPS post "Rudnichny" on the outskirts of Kemerovo. We vote at the Lukoil gas station immediately behind the post. It makes sense to select a car to Mariinsk or Achinsk.
  • After 13 km from Kemerovo - a fork to Anzhero-Sudzhinsk. Wide shoulder, there are lights, no bump stop.
  • Not reaching 20 km to Mariinsk, there will be a turn to the village of Verkhnyaya-Chebula. There is a position when moving towards Mariinsk, there is a slight rise. There is no lighting. When moving in the opposite direction - no position
  • Mariinsk is 178 km from Kemerovo. One of the most "mean" cities in Russia for hitchhikers. There is no bypass, the route winds through the city. In the city itself there is a distillery, correctional institutions. The population either drives alcohol, or sits, or protects. For these reasons, we do not recommend getting into the city. If the car ends its way in Mariinsk, then it is better to get out of it in advance, for example, near the memorial to the victims of Siblag and select the checkpoint. There are no traffic police posts at the entrance and exit either. The first village in the direction of Krasnoyarsk is Pier 2. There is a bus from the Mariinsk bus station to this village, here is the timetable.
  • Behind the village of Suslovo there is a railway crossing through the Trans-Siberian. Equipped with automatic barriers and an attendant's booth. There is one lantern on each side of the crossing. Compared to the Mariinsky, this can be considered a "good position".
  • Large two-story traffic police post outside Bogotol. Already the Krasnoyarskiy region. We vote at the last lantern, where the bump stop ends. We are catching the entrance to Krasnoyarsk, we do not agree to Achinsk!
  • Achinsk also does not have a bypass. The route winds along the southern outskirts of the city, among all kinds of industrial zones and dumb fences. If, nevertheless, you did not catch the checkpoint in advance, then you yourself are to blame. Read the article about departures from Achinsk.
  • New roundabout at the turn to Abakan. Around the taiga! There are no lanterns, but the roadside is wide.
  • We pass Krasnoyarsk along the northern bypass. The roundabout beyond Emelyanovo is covered with bumpers. You can vote only at the beginning of it, at the blue sign to Irkutsk. The interchange with the Yenisei tract is also all in bumpers, but you can vote on the acceleration lane at the end of it, near the asphalt plant.
  • Turn to Minusinsk. Immediately behind the junction, there is a large parking lot for truckers, with cafes, a motel, tire changers and others. Disaster medicine item. At the end of it all - a gas station with lanterns.
  • Turn to Aginskoe. Roundabout. There are no lanterns or posts. After 300 meters, there is a small gas station on the side of the road and there are four lanterns on it.
  • The large city of Kansk is 247 km from Krasnoyarsk. Another "dastardly city" for hitchhikers. There is no bypass, zones, military units and reinforcing factories ... The route winds through the entire center and extended industrial zones ... We recommend that you take a pass car in advance or get out by public transport, see the description of Kansk. [The southern bypass of Kansk is currently under construction. They promise to build it by 2020. ]
  • A traffic police post at the turn to Biryusa, in front of Taishet. Border of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Irkutsk Region. If the car goes to Taishet, it is UNIFORMAL to go out at the checkpoint and catch the car to Irkutsk. It makes no sense to go to the turn itself, we vote at the last lantern right after the post.
  • Turn to Taishet. A fast place with bumpers! It's better not to get here! Around the "zone" and "colony-settlement" ...
  • Alzamai we pass along the bypass.
  • Nizhneudinsk. Another "criminal center of Russia" without a bypass road. Better not to get hit! Industrial zones, slag accumulators, secret bases, military training grounds, fences with towers and so on stretch along the highway for a dozen kilometers ... At the very exit from the city there is a gas station with two lamps.
  • Tulun (390 km. To Irkutsk) is the "sidekick" of its neighbor Nizhneudinsk. Again, no bypass! Again zones, warehouses, towers, a creamery, a glass factory, a coal warehouse, a hydrolysis plant, a closed mine ... Unlike the previous "criminal cities" in Tulun there is also a turn to Bratsk in the center of it all! And a considerable% of cars turn there. At the roundabout, among the fences and garbage dumps, there are lights only on the circle itself, but the roads that leave the circle are dark and dumb even during the day. And next to it there are also five-story buildings with gopniks ... In general, you understand already? If you don't want to walk along Gidroliznaya Street past the flooded coal mines, leave the car that turns to Bratsk (or goes to Tulun itself) 10 kilometers to the city and catch the checkpoint.
  • If in front of Tulun there is a through car through the city, but not to Irkutsk, then you can get out of it 25 after Tulun, at the railway crossing through the Transsib in front of the Sheragul village. There are lights, but the roadside is narrow. However, the car can be stopped!
  • Another slow railway crossing in front of Tulyushka station. The name is associated with the Buryat "tulikha" - "to suffer". So, if you do not want to suffer from voting in numerous villages, it is high time to catch a direct car to Irkutsk! However, there are lanterns at the "Tulyushkinsky" ("painful") crossing, and immediately after the crossing there is a wide comfortable roadside.
  • Interchange with a turn to Sayansk. 266 km to Irkutsk. There are no bump stops and lanterns. High-speed section of the track - two lanes in each direction.
  • Huge interchange near Zalari station. Turn to Zhigalovo. Irkutsk is exactly 200 km away. There are no lanterns and chippers at the junction. There is a speed limit of "50", but who observes it there ?!
  • PGT Kutulik. Bypass.
  • Roundabout with the Cheremkhovo-Golumet highway. 140 km to Irkutsk. What is called "in the open field" - no lanterns, no bump stop.
  • The industrial city of Usolye-Sibirskoye. Again without a bypass. The track goes straight through the center, sandwiched between the Transsib and the Angara. There should be buses to Angarsk. Find out - let us know!
  • Angarsk bypass. Electric trains run to Irkutsk (except for buses and minibuses). If traffic jams are expected at the entrance to Irkutsk (for example, at open in the evening), then look at the schedule, it may be faster to go around them on a commuter train.
  • If you don't need to go to Irkutsk itself, then we turn with the trucks to the Western bypass. The whole junction is in bumpers. Lanterns end behind the bridge across the river. Veresovka, the "acceleration strip" ends there, and we vote behind this bridge.

Then we look at the track P258 "Baikal" (former M55 )

It is part of the Asian route AH6. Part of the road from Chelyabinsk to Omsk also applies to european route E 30. Part of the M51 road passes through the territory of Kazakhstan, which can be bypassed by a bypass through Ishim.

M51 Chelyabinsk - Kurgan - Ishim - Omsk - Novosibirsk

Length: 1528 km

The road along the entire length has an asphalt concrete surface with a carriageway width of 7-8 m.

The average January temperature varies along the route from -14 ° С to -20 ° С.

Dangerous for traffic are areas:

    with a steep descent (234 km),

    with sharp bends (790 km, 871 km, 890 km, 956 km),

    with limited visibility (15 km, 234 km, 890 km).

The road crosses significant rivers: Tobol, Irtysh, Ishim, Ob.

All bridges have a lifting capacity of 60-80 tons.

Service data (distances to objects are given in km from the beginning of the road):

    Medical assistance points: 859, 904, 942 (1), 1316 (3), 1399 (3), 1415 (6).

    Traffic police posts: 27, 95, 126, 171, 207, 295, 396, 443, 763, 812, 832, 997.

Food points are located on the highway after an average of 100-125 km.

Through the Northern bypass of Novosibirsk, the highway passes into M53, for 27 km from the traffic police post on the Northern bypass of Novosibirsk to the village of Sokur - four lanes (two lanes in each direction with separation of flows, in effect since November 10, 2011).

The road passes through the territory of Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Omsk and Novosibirsk region (part of the road (190 km) through the territory of Kazakhstan).

M53 Novosibirsk - (Tomsk -) Kemerovo - Krasnoyarsk - Irkutsk

Length: 1860 km

Passes through the territory of Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Irkutsk regions, Krasnoyarsk Territory.

The road surface is asphalt concrete with a carriageway width of 7 m.

Initially, the road runs in flat terrain.

The climate is continental with hot summers and moderately severe winters with little snow.

    with steep descents and ascents (60 km, 139 km, 242 km, 305 km, 655 km, 809 km, 1470 km, 1575 km);

    with sharp turns (41 km, 227 km, 482 km, 548 km, 1364 km, 1464 km, 1487 km);

    with limited visibility (235 km, 346 km, 483 km).

There are bridges with a carrying capacity of 40 tons - across the river. Floodplain (1167 km), (1464 km), at 1478 km and 1517 km.

The rest of the bridges on the road have a carrying capacity of 60 tons or more.

(distances to objects are given in km from the beginning of the road. The distances of objects from the highway in km are given in brackets)

Medical aid points: 23, 36, 52, 57(3), 82, 158(12), 176(1), 199(7), 206(1), 226(5), 245(4), 382, 402(3), 427(4), 447(4), 481(3), 506(4), 543, 583, 645(3), 690(2), 713, 775(2), 798, 812(3), 845, 931(5), 1049(3), 1103, 1370, 1441, 1487(4), 1623(5), 1754(3), 1800(5), 1815, 1840(1).

Traffic police posts: 56, 126, 245, 295, 653, 755, 808, 845, 931, 1049, 1372, 1626, 1811, 1834.

Food points are located along the highway in an average of 50-60 km.

The road starts in Novosibirsk, leaving in the northern direction, to the city of Tomsk. Without going into Tomsk - for this there is a separate entrance, also called "M-53" - the "Baikal" highway without any problems reaches the city of Kemerovo, the center of the Kemerovo region.

The Kemerovo - Mariinsk section begins with a serpentine among the Mariinsky taiga, then the road is leveled, the second half runs smoothly and calmly.

The Mariinsk - Achinsk section is also exhaustingly calm, which again requires constant attention. Approximately in the middle is the Bogotol traffic police post, a complex of cafes and motels. In Achinsk, in addition to the continuation of the M-53 motorway towards Krasnoyarsk, a motorway begins in the southern direction - to Khakassia, leading to the M-54 motorway.

The Achinsk - Krasnoyarsk section is livelier than the previous ones - you can feel the approach big city... From the village of Kozulka (the regional center), the road expands, the quality of the road surface improves markedly. Not far from Krasnoyarsk, at a roundabout, the first turn to the right goes towards the M-54 “Yenisei” highway Krasnoyarsk - Kyzyl. The next exit from the intersection is to Krasnoyarsk.

The M-53 highway passes Krasnoyarsk along the northern edge, and goes further east in the direction where the rally section of the federal highway actually begins.

In September 2013, ahead of schedule, a section of the M-53 "Baikal" highway from 1465 to 1469 km was commissioned: the gravel road turned into a gorgeous 9-meter road with perfectly flat asphalt. This year Trud specialists continue to improve the federal highway in the section 1443 - 1454 km. Especially in order to asphalt a site with a length of more than 10 km, "Trud" installed an asphalt concrete plant here.

M55 Irkutsk - Ulan-Ude - Chita

Short route

276 km - Babushkin

447 km - Ulan-Ude

491 km - Tarbagatai (Buryatia)

652 km - Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky

794 km - Khilok

1113 km - Chita

Length: 1113 km.

The road passes through the territory of the Republic of Buryatia and the Trans-Baikal Territory.

Most of the road has an asphalt concrete surface with a carriageway width of 7 m (there are sections with cement concrete and crushed stone).

The climate along the route is sharply continental, with long cold winters (average January temperature -24 ° С and short hot summers (average July temperature + 20 ° С).

A number of road sections are dangerous to traffic and require special attention from the driver:

    with steep descents and ascents (34 km, 40 km, 52 km, 55 km, 243 km, 670 km 1029 km, 1081 km);

    with sharp turns (15 km, 29 km, 41 km, 52 km, 105 km, 276 km, 347 km, 498 km, 703 km);

    with limited visibility (100 km, 400 km, 1055 km).

The road crosses significant rivers: Selenga (near Ulan-Ude), Khilok (near Khilok).

The bridges have a carrying capacity of 60 tons or more.

Service data (distances to objects are given in km from the beginning of the road)

Medical aid pointsand: 19, 110, 146, 279, 362, 447, 559, 589, 604, 652, 670, 677, 904, 961.

Traffic police posts: 10, 105, 372, 443, 556, 655, 794.

Food points are located on average after 40-50 km.

Technical specifications

    Carriageway width - 7 m;

    Subgrade width - 12 m;

    Estimated traffic intensity - 3,000 vehicles per day;

    Estimated travel speed - 100 km / h;

    Length - 1,113 km;

    The number of lanes is two;

    Cover type - improved lightweight.

History

Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU and USSR Council of Ministers dated October 23, 1970 No. 878-301 "On the construction and reconstruction of border highways (AD) in the regions of Eastern Siberia, Of the Far East and Central Asia. " separate road construction brigades ((odsbr) were created in the Main Military Construction Directorate (GVSU) of the USSR Ministry of Defense (USSR Ministry of Defense) Armed Forces USSR (USSR Armed Forces) which were deployed and started in 1970 on the construction and reconstruction sites of the Irkutsk-Chita road in the Transbaikal regions. Financing of construction and reconstruction was carried out at the expense of capital investments allocated centrally, once a year, for these purposes by the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR. The total length of the road from Irkutsk to Chita reached 1,172 km (with entrances), of which 566 km were existing paved sections, and 606 km were to be rebuilt by three separate road construction teams. The work began in 1970 at three sites:

A total of 606 km of asphalt-concrete road was built and put into operation on the Irkutsk-Chita road in accordance with the standards of the III technical category, while 207,000,000 rubles of capital investments were spent (at estimated prices of 1969).

Was built:

  1. 103 capital bridges;
  2. 480 culverts;
  3. 12 complexes of buildings and structures of the road maintenance service;
  4. 8 petrol stations (Gas station);
  5. 3 bus stations (bus station);
  6. 2 stations maintenance (STO) cars and road vehicles;

As work was completed on their sites, the GVSU of the USSR Ministry of Defense moved to the construction of the Chita - Khabarovsk AD (M58).

The construction and reconstruction works of the "Irkutsk - Chita" AD were mainly completed in 1981.

Federal highway P255 "Siberia" - federal highway Novosibirsk - (Tomsk) - Kemerovo - Krasnoyarsk - Irkutsk.

Passes through the territory of Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Irkutsk regions and Krasnoyarsk Territory. The length of the road is 1,860 kilometers.

The road is a formal eastward extension, along with which it forms part of the Asian route AH6.

The road surface is asphalt concrete with a carriageway width of 7 m.

Initially, the road runs in flat terrain.

A number of road sections are dangerous to traffic and require special attention from the driver

  • with steep descents and ascents (60 km, 139 km, 242 km, 305 km, 655 km, 809 km, 1470 km, 1575 km);
  • with sharp turns (41 km, 227 km, 482 km, 548 km, 1364 km, 1464 km, 1487 km);
  • with limited visibility (235 km, 346 km, 483 km).

The road crosses significant rivers: Tom (near Kemerovo), Kiya (near Mariinsk), Chulym (near Achinsk), Yenisei (near Krasnoyarsk), Kan (near Kansk), Biryusa (near Taishet), Udu (near Nizhneudinsk), Oka (near Winters), Oyu (near Tulun), Belaya (in Malta) and Irkut (in Irkutsk).

  • There are bridges with a carrying capacity of 40 tons - across the Poyma River (1167 km), the Iyu River (1464 km), at 1478 km and 1517 km.
  • The rest of the bridges on the road have a carrying capacity of 60 tons or more.
    Medical aid points: 23, 36, 52, 57 (3), 82, 158 (12), 176 (1), 199 (7), 206 (1), 226 (5), 245 (4), 382, 402 (3), 427 (4), 447 (4), 481 (3), 506 (4), 543, 583, 645 (3), 690 (2), 713, 775 (2), 798,812(3), 845, 931(5), 1049(3), 1103, 1370, 1441, 1487(4), 1623(5), 1754(3), 1800(5), 1815, 1840(1).
  • Traffic police posts: 56, 126, 245, 295, 653, 755, 808, 845, 931, 1049, 1372, 1626, 1811, 1834.

Distances to objects are given in kilometers from the beginning of the road, distances of objects from the highway in kilometers are given in brackets.

Food points are located along the highway in an average of 50-60 km.

Route

  • The road starts in Novosibirsk with a northward exit to the cities of Kemerovo and Tomsk. At the exit from Novosibirsk, the thirty-kilometer section is four-lane with a concrete fence.
  • The town of Yurga has a turn to Tomsk. To approach it, there is a separate entrance, also referred to as "p255" ("entrance to the city of Tomsk"), and the Siberia highway continues towards Krasnoyarsk, passing through the cities of Kemerovo and Mariinsk of the Kemerovo Region and Achinsk of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
  • There is no bypass Kemerovo, transit needs to go through the city.
  • The Kemerovo - Mariinsk section begins with a serpentine among the taiga, then the road is leveled, the second half runs smoothly and calmly.
  • The Mariinsk - Achinsk section is also calm, which again requires constant attention. Around the middle is a complex of cafes and motels. In Achinsk, in addition to the continuation of the M53 motorway towards Krasnoyarsk, the motorway begins in the southern direction - to Khakassia, leading to the P257 (M54) Yenisei motorway.

  • The section Achinsk - Krasnoyarsk is livelier than the previous ones - you can feel the approach of a big city.
  • From the village of Shushkovo (703-722 km, 747-759 km, 787-802 km (near the Yemelyanovo airport) and the very approach to Krasnoyarsk), the road is expanding, the quality of the road surface is noticeably improving.
  • 36 km from Kozulka there is a roundabout where the road begins to the M54 Yenisei highway Krasnoyarsk - Kyzyl - the state border. The first exit from the intersection is on the M54, the next is on Krasnoyarsk.
  • Route Р255 (М53) bypasses Krasnoyarsk along the highway "Deep bypass of the city of Krasnoyarsk" over the bridge over the Yenisei and goes further east in the direction of Irkutsk.
  • The section from Angarsk (1841 km to 1872 km (entrance to Irkutsk) four-lane highway. Reconstruction was carried out in 2017)
  • In 2010, in front of Irkutsk, a bypass road was put into operation, which directly connected the P255 highway with the P258 Baikal highway.

Modernization

On August 12, 2015, road workers solemnly opened freshly repaired sections on the federal highway P255 "Siberia" - an overpass in the Nizhneudinsky region and a seventeen-kilometer section of the highway in the Tulunsky region. This section was the last gravel break on the federal highway not only in the Irkutsk region, but in the country as a whole. After that, the entire Trans-Siberian highway became completely asphalted along its entire length.

Perspectives

In September 2010, the Minister of Transport announced that in the near future, fixed assets intended for the construction and repair of roads will be spent on the repair of the federal highway M53 Krasnoyarsk - Irkutsk. Work on asphalting a soil area is planned. Funding plans will be revised in order to allocate funds to complete the construction of the northern bypass road around Novosibirsk, which will allow vehicles to travel from west to east, bypassing Novosibirsk, towards Tomsk, then to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, bypassing Kemerovo.

As a result, a huge traffic jam arose in the area of \u200b\u200bthe town of Usolye-Sibirskoye. A few days later, after the intervention of the Ministry of Transport, local road services carried out repairs. However, the state of the track still raises concerns.

"Chekhov traveled from Tomsk to Irkutsk for two weeks through Mariinsk, Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kansk. He drove over 2000 miles along a terrible road, rinsed in the mud, stayed at the stations for 10-15 hours due to breakdowns of his carriage, walked many miles on foot ".

120 years after Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's visit to these places, in terms of roads, it seems that nothing has changed here. Hundreds of trucks loaded to the top, with goods from all over the world, turned into a single automobile clot. Selection mat in truck cabins, offices of high officials and the first issue of all TV news. As often happens, the road disappeared suddenly. The lower Ingash section of the M-53 highway became the site of the loss of dozens of vehicles and hundreds of tons of cargo.

"For three days the cars were dragging, punching pallets. You see what boulders were lying around, tore off the batteries. And yesterday the guys got up because it was not possible to go and blocked the road. Only after that they drove the road workers and sprinkled them all night," says truck driver Alexander Zdeshnev.

Even these Mongolian horses, who have spent several days standing in the van, look absolutely worn out. People spent four days in unsanitary conditions, without food and water. Burning fuel to heat their cars, truckers queued up behind a tracked tractor. This tractor has become the only salvation from the mud captivity.

- Come on, drag it to the end! It still won't work there.

What is going on with the federal highway M-53? A one-time injury or another relapse of a chronic disease that has become publicized just now. We decided to look at the road with our own eyes, as well as through the eyes of those who drive on it, who live on it and are responsible for it.

The first 300 kilometers of the journey from Krasnoyarsk to Nizhniy Ingash, the first acquaintance with the M-53 "Baikal" highway could already be enough for a volume of memories or a good lock of gray hair. We had to constantly check our path on the map, refusing to believe that we were continuing to move along the federal road.

- Here is the M-53 sign! What?! Is this a federal highway?

- Does not look like!

On the fifth day, the road services restored traffic on the highway both towards Irkutsk and towards Krasnoyarsk. Let it be slow, even with the risk of breaking an axle or losing a wheel, but.

It was these 300 meters of track that caused a colossal traffic jam on the M-53 highway. The fact that the traffic has now been restored is due, rather, not to road services, but to the weather. The ten-degree frosts, which were established in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, bound the swamps. The builders had only to lay the slabs and fill the holes. But, even now, this one barely resembles the roadway, and even more so, the federal highway.

It is rather not even the repair of the emergency section, but the restoration of traffic in any way. The road workers laid the concrete slabs right into the swamp. And it seems that from this moment the countdown of time for this segment of the path began. According to the road workers, this is the so-called "temporary house". They say it will last until spring, and then a big reconstruction is not far off.

“Attention has been drawn to this section of the road. And we have begun its reconstruction. Probably, this should have been done before, while the canvas was still holding. And this year, according to the contract, 200 million rubles were allocated. And this is not the final figure,” he says. general director LLC "Road-Building Company" Nikolay Yung.

Experienced drivers are well aware of all the insidiousness of this road. Having overcome, it seemed, the most difficult section of the path, the cars crashed out of the blue. Just fifty kilometers from the sensational failure of the road, just a few hours later, Baikal presents another unpleasant surprise. Bonfires by the road. Keeping warm, the drivers burn what they were carrying. Today the road is over for them. Pouring one hundred grams for warming, they remember their professional holiday.

- Thus, we celebrate the driver's day. We bought sheep from a car company, traffic cops, bosses. And they call me in the morning: your car is in a ditch.

- Note!

Dmitry says that for ten years now, driving on the M-53 each time resembles a game of "Russian roulette". He calls the section of the road from Ingash to Reshet, about 60 kilometers, a terrible road. And he thanks God that this time everything was done without sacrifices.

"Here is a sharp turn. A car jumped out to meet him. He had nothing left: he pressed on the brakes and he skidded and fell into a ditch. Fortunately, he did not crumple much, but the car does not have a salable appearance. Thank God that the driver remained alive." - says the driver Dmitry Kutsko.

On this slope, two cars descended into the ditch at once. Sometimes a whole day passes while waiting for help. This Volvo is still slowly sliding off the road. It's cold outside - it's dangerous in a car.

“It’s scary to approach, it can fall there. I’m afraid to climb into the cab, because the car can go at any time. The rear wheels have already come off. The ground is damp, there is a swamp from below, it is sinking. Maybe it will fall tonight, maybe tomorrow morning. Staggering. It's a pity for the car! We get money, for everything ", - says the driver Sergei Bagritsov.

The road is slippery as a skating rink, even studded tires do not save here. Numerous potholes, up to 20-30 centimeters deep, are simply not visible on the night road. As a result, the car of our film crew flies into a ditch. And only by a miracle the car hangs on the very edge of the road.

- Route M-53 and we are here too!

In such cases, there is little hope for rescuers. The nearest villages are about 30 kilometers away. We were lucky, this time the road sand spreader passed on time. And also truckers. Our "Niva" was literally pulled out by hand.

- Get the car out!

Our colleagues were much less fortunate. Just a few hours after our departure to the side of the road, a car, where the film crew of the Rossiya TV channel was driving, got into a serious accident. This was the first acquaintance of our colleagues with the track.

“We were driving on the instructions of the editors, filming a film about the track, about its problems. We kept the speed at about 70 kilometers per hour, because we knew that there were dangerous sections and ice on this track. Then something unexpected happened. The car began to throw up, skid and we abruptly drove into a ditch. We turned over several times, the car hit a tree, and now, in fact, in this state, "- explains the correspondent of the TV channel" Russia "Dmitry Kaistro.

You can feel all the beauty of the M-53 highway without leaving your home. The village of Upper Ingash. Huge wagons sweep just three meters from residential buildings. Sometimes old log cabins are used for emergency braking. For example, like this heavy cargo. Baba Valya was just preparing food in a small kitchen.

"I can hear here how it was bummed, how it boomed! How scared I was. And all at me, the bulkhead. Okay, not on my head, but on my hand. I was scared, I don't know where to run. I crawled out into the street. Open the gate, but I can't. I shout: sentry! Help! But no one is there. Everything is there, "says Valentina Goncharova, a resident of the village of Verkhny Ingash.

Residents of numerous villages through which the highway passes are afraid to cross the road. Having escaped onto a decent piece of road, the tractors are trying, overtaking each other, to make up for lost time. Dilapidated houses can hardly stand.

"There is a lot of noise, the cars are coming, we can't cross the old road. We walk with a stick. And we are afraid, these cars are coming now. We didn’t walk like that before. Well, where they will deny this road, not where they will not be denied," says a resident of the village of Verkhny Ingash Nadezhda Luzan.

The local traffic police seem to have got used to frequent accidents. This is a familiar thing on the way from Krasnoyarsk to Irkutsk.

"People get tired when driving on a bad road. Because of this, all these exits occur. From the fatigue of drivers and the fact that they are driving for a long time. There is practically no control over this," - says the head of the traffic police department for the Nizhneingashsky district Dmitry Trifonov.

From the expressions on the faces of the truckers passing by, it becomes clear that such cases on this road are rather a sad pattern. The reconstructed sections with quite decent coverage are abruptly replaced by kilometers practically unsuitable for driving.

The sections of the track, where the M-53 highway turns into a direction, are well known to drivers. Anyway, there should not be any heavy Volvo, Scania or Kenward. Built several decades ago, in Soviet times, this road was designed for completely different vehicles, the heaviest of which was the ZIL-130, well, the maximum "KAMAZ".

It is the heavy trucks, according to the road workers, who turned the track into a continuous mess. The director of the road construction company, Nikolai Jung, says that the vehicles are heavily overloaded, the asphalt pavement simply cannot withstand such loads.

"When you stop the driver and ask: how much is loaded? He shows 20 tons according to the documents and the load is not the same as the one he has loaded. But we see how the roadway behaves. You cannot fool us. Our 26-ton dump trucks are passing by. , nothing happens. A truck is going, it cuts right there. They have single-sided tires at the rear, "explains Nikolai Jung.

The driver of this wrecked truck says that in principle it is not possible. Truckers are paid only for the cargo specified in the documents. There is no other income. Yes, in principle, it is impossible to drag a load weighing 60 tons off-road.

- In Russia you can't go anywhere with such a load.

Such mutual accusations of road workers and drivers have been going on for a long time. Transport collapses on the M-53 happen several times a year, when the obstinate Siberian weather shows its character. And that could be the simplest excuse. But to the credit of the Krasnoyarsk road workers, we still received an answer to the directly posed question: who is to blame?

“I am responsible for the entire federal administration of Baikal roads. I am the leader, and therefore I must be responsible. I don’t see anyone else in this case. We are responsible for the condition of the road,” explains Konstantin Lyashkevich, head of the federal administration of Baikal federal roads.

The road builders inherited this route from the Soviet Union with all the ensuing problems. There is money for repairs. 600 million rubles have been allocated for the 60-kilometer section. This money will only be enough to patch up the road. There is no talk of building a modern pavement.

"We do not harbor illusions. We also understand that no one will develop global construction projects here. Those areas that can be brought to a normal state with the help of repairs. If reconstruction is needed somewhere, like in this area, then we will make a decision on reconstruction ", - says Konstantin Lyashkevich.

In the meantime, in the lowlands, where it is not sprinkled, like on a skating rink. It is absolutely impossible to go. Everything is the same as 120 years ago, when Anton Pavlovich Chekhov got stuck between Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk. Some solid directions.

Perhaps there is no other state in the world where communication routes between cities and regions would be of the same paramount importance as in Russia. Only roads unite grandiose geographical spaces in united country... And the track numbers on the map are familiar and understandable here not only to truck drivers.

From Western Siberia to Eastern

M53, referred to as "Siberia" for short, passes through Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo region and the Krasnoyarsk Territory. It ends in. In some sources, this road is designated by the code word "Baikal", which is fundamentally wrong - the world's largest freshwater lake is located east of Irkutsk, in which it ends. This designation can be considered correct only for the entire historical route from the Urals to Baikal. And the M53 highway is only a part of this route. And it has a completely official designation - "Siberia". The cities through which the M53 highway passes are among the largest historical, industrial and cultural centers Siberia. The total length of this road is 1,860 kilometers. Moving from west to east of the country, the M53-highway is a direct continuation of the federal highway M51 "Irtysh", which runs from the South Urals to Novosibirsk through Kurgan and Omsk. And east of Irkutsk, movement in the direction of the Pacific Ocean continues along the federal highway M55, going in the direction of Ulan-Ude and further to Chita.

From the history of communication lines

Modern on the map is the distance on the historical path from central Russia to the Pacific Ocean. This oldest trans-Siberian land route dates back to the middle of the eighteenth century. Of course, in those distant times, there were no bridge crossings across the great Siberian rivers, and various sections of the route, called in historical sources "Moscow tract", were not stable. In many sections, they were duplicated and were more like driving directions than fully equipped roads. But bridges and roads were built gradually, as the Russian Empire moved eastward. And one of the bridge crossings is well known even to those who have never been to Siberia. The M53 highway runs in Krasnoyarsk over the bridge over the Yenisei. It is he who is depicted on the ten-ruble banknote.

Track numbers on the map of Russia

Currently in the territory Russian Federation the designations of highways, adopted in the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of November 17, 2010, apply. This document defines new designations for some federal highways. In particular, they are designated with the prefix "M", as coming from Moscow. But at the same time, the old codification system remains temporarily in force. It will expire on January 1, 2018. In the new system of codification of routes, there is no division into categories - into main and secondary ones. But there is a tendency for the serial numbers of the tracks to increase as they move away from the capital.

M53 highway today

At present, the construction of the Siberia federal highway can by no means be called completed. Despite the fact that along the entire route, freight and passenger Transportation, in many of its sections the road surface leaves much to be desired, and often it is completely absent. The repair and construction of the track almost never stopped. The roadside service infrastructure also requires improvement. The track builders have to overcome significant difficulties. This is due primarily to difficult soils. For a considerable length of time, they require preliminary strengthening before it will be possible to build an embankment on them for the future road. The highway crosses many settlements directly along the main street. It happened so historically. This did not pose any particular problems until the beginning of the twentieth century, when the main mode of transport was horse-drawn. But nowadays it is necessary to invest heavily in the construction of bypass sections around settlements.

Distance Novosibirsk - Kemerovo

At its initial stage, the M53 runs mainly on flat terrain. From Novosibirsk the road goes northward to Tomsk. But she does not enter this city, turning right to Kemerovo. To Tomsk, turn left, the branch of the road is marked on the maps with the same M53 designation as the entire route. The condition of the roadway along the entire route to Kemerovo is quite satisfactory. is seven meters. The road surface is asphalt concrete. Of the significant water barriers - only the Tom River, the bridge across it is located not far from Kemerovo. According to statistics, the number of accidents at this distance is minimal.

Section Kemerovo - Irkutsk

This is the most difficult section of the track. Hard road surface is not available here on all sections. Particularly difficult is the section of the Kemerovo-Mariinsk route, which passes through an elevated area. The road here crosses a large taiga massif, and its outlines acquire a serpentine character. After Mariinsk, the track is leveled and the road becomes calmer. For the former traffic police post "Bogotol" - comfortable spot for parking and rest. There are roadside service structures in the form of cafes and motels. After Achinsk, the traffic on the highway becomes more lively, this affects the approach of a large city - Krasnoyarsk. The city itself, the M53 highway, passes along its outskirts, along the northern bypass. And then there is the final section of the road to Irkutsk. On this section, there are difficult sections of the road, without a hard surface. The largest number of them is located in the Taishet region. It is especially difficult here when atmospheric precipitation falls.

What you need to remember on the Siberia track

Driving along Siberian roads has its own specifics. It is determined by geography and climate. The M53-route map is able to demonstrate how much distance one has to cover here on the way from one settlement to another. Any equipment failure on the way can leave you alone with the problems that have arisen. Therefore, it is best to move along the Siberian routes, as was customary in ancient times, as part of caravans. This is especially true in the winter time. The climate in Siberia is sharply continental, with a large annual temperature drop. This means that it can be quite hot in summer and very cold in winter. Snow drifts often occur, which greatly impede movement on the highway.

Moscow gate in Irkutsk

Interesting historical monumentDirectly connected with the federal highway M53 is the Triumphal Arch in Irkutsk. It was erected in 1813 on the banks of the Angara. In this place began the Moscow tract, a long way from Eastern Siberia to the central regions of Russia. And the arch, erected in honor of the Emperor Alexander the First, opened it. An expressive architectural monument, made in the style of classicism, was not demolished in the Soviet era, but even before the start of the First World War. The city authorities at that moment did not find funds to repair it. But it has been restored to its original form in our time, on the same foundation, exactly 200 years after the completion of the construction of the original.


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