M2 highway (Russia)

The Russian route M2 (also known as the Crimea Highway, (автодорога "Крым")) is a major trunk road that connects Moscow to Crimea. It is part of the European route E105. It is 720 kilometers long.

Federal Highway M2
Федеральная автомобильная дорога М2
Crimea Highway
Route information
Part of E105
Length	720 km (450 mi)
Existed	1950–present
Major junctions
West end	Ukrainian border
East end	MKAD in Moscow
Location
Country	Russia
Highway system
Russian Federal Highways
← M 1 → M 3

Transportation interchange at the intersection of M-2 and A-107, the "Moscow Small Ring" (August 2017)

Inaugurated in 1950, the highway starts at the junction of the Moscow Ring Road and Varshavskoye Shosse and travels south-west, immediately bypassing the cities of Tula, Oryol, Kursk and Belgorod before terminating at the border with Ukraine.

West of the border at Hoptivka, the road continues through Kharkiv and Zaporizhia to Simferopol and Yalta as the Ukrainian M20 and M18.

See also

• Berlinka, the never-completed Reichsautobahn Berlin-Königsberg of the Third Reich into East Prussia.

External links

• M2 Highway (from Tula to Moscow), August 2015