Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod
Length 409 km
The busiest part of the route. It is believed that about 100 thousand cars leave Moscow towards Nizhny Novgorod every day. The main problems are also associated with this: long and almost round-the-clock traffic jams from the Entuziastov Highway in Moscow to the exit from Balashikha. Further along the route, difficulties most often arise in Malaya Dubna (intersection with the A108 highway from Orekhovo-Zuevo) and in Pokrov (traffic lights working around the clock).
The condition of this part of the highway is the best along the entire length of the M7. Almost everywhere there are at least two lanes in each direction. In the Vladimir region there are still enough sections without a dividing beam, but in the Nizhny Novgorod region the highway is divided into two carriageways almost along its entire length. The city of Vladimir has a bypass road (Southern Bypass), which narrows to two lanes for the first 17 km (from Moscow), and then becomes as wide as the rest of the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod highway. Perhaps, at the moment, the best way to avoid traffic jams in a narrow place is to go directly through Vladimir, and in the city center turn towards the bridge over the Klyazma onto the Sudogodskoe highway (P72, P73) in order to reach the bypass in a wide place. Through travel through Vladimir along the old Vladimirsky highway is not recommended due to the narrow and congested section at the exit towards Nizhny Novgorod.
Five kilometers before the entrance to Nizhny Novgorod (in Lesnaya Polyana), the M7 Volga highway goes to the right. This is the future Nizhny bypass, which is currently partially completed. On this section of the bypass the highway speed limit applies. The road leads to a bridge over the Oka River, and then forces transit transport to still enter Nizhny Novgorod (Gagarina Ave., Larina St., or via Olgino to Fedyakovo) in order to then go to Kazan. The entire southern bypass of Nizhny Novgorod should be built by 2018.
According to our portal, along the entire stretch of the M7 from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod there are about 1,700 infrastructure facilities - motels, cafes, car services, tire service centers, etc. This is the most developed section of the route in terms of service. There are also many attractions here, both in cities on the highway and beyond.
Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan
Length 387 km
This section of the route requires more driving effort and, in some places, caution. You can leave Nizhny Novgorod along the street. Larina (continuation of the unfinished bypass) or through the city center, the Verkhnie Pechery microdistrict and the village of Afonino. The first city on the way, Kstovo, has its own bypass, which is recommended for heavy trucks. Drivers of passenger vehicles can drive right through the city and only gain time.
The condition of this section of the M7 Volga highway is varied: there are sections no worse than Moscow, but at times the road narrows and the speed drops noticeably. This is due to the repair or complete reconstruction of individual areas.
Before Cheboksary, the road has mainly three lanes - the middle row is intended for overtaking alternately in both directions. As a rule, the overtaking lane opens before a long ascent and ends before the descent. In general, this section of the route is quite winding and hilly, and this seriously differs from the “linear” Moscow section of the M7.
The “legendary” problem area near the city of Lyskovo (Nizhny Novgorod region) has today been significantly improved, the speed will not have to be reduced, and the tires will remain intact. And in December 2012, a long-awaited event took place on the Chuvash section of the route: a new bridge across the Sura was opened for traffic, in a place where there had previously been constant congestion. The new bridge is two-lane, but the old one remains in service - traffic on each of them is now one-way. At the same time, the entrances to Sura still remain old and in very poor condition.
The M7 highway runs south of the capital of Chuvashia, and on weekends traffic jams are possible here due to the mass exodus of Cheboksary residents to gardens and nature.
On the territory of Tatarstan, the roads are generally of normal quality. The M7 Volga highway goes around Kazan from the north.
Kazan – Ufa
Length 514 km
After a good bypass of Kazan, the route leads to a section of the route that was actively reconstructed for the Kazan Universiade 2013. Plot to the village Shali has two lanes in each direction, then the road narrows. After the 900th kilometer there are two lanes again.
After the exit to Mamadysh, the route passes over a new bridge over Vyatka to Elabuga. The city remains to the south, and the road goes towards Naberezhnye Chelny. You won’t be able to go around Chelny: the entrance to the city starts from the Nizhnekamsk hydroelectric power station dam, and then the M7 highway goes through the city all the way to the Oryol Ring, where it goes to the right. The road to the border with Bashkortostan is two-lane. It remains the same in most of the territory of Bashkortostan. There are several sections with expansion to four lanes.
The route ends at the entrance to the Zaton microdistrict of the city of Ufa, which stretches for several kilometers along the route. A bypass around the area is currently being built, which will end in front of the Zatonsky Bridge. Most of the transit transport leaves in front of Ufa to the interchange on the Birsky tract and then to the 27-kilometer transition to the M5 highway towards Chelyabinsk.
Federal highway M-7 "Volga"(Beijing) starts from the city of the hero of Moscow with a four-lane highway 400 kilometers long in fairly good condition. There is a dividing strip between oncoming traffic, two lanes in each direction. It then becomes a standard two-lane road in reasonable condition with a third lane for overtaking. The M-7 Volga highway is the safest road in Russia.
The history of the highway begins in the 50s of the last century, when I.V. Stalin was still alive and the Russian and the Chinese were supposed to become brothers forever. Then the friendship between the USSR and China seemed eternal and unshakable, and therefore, to commemorate this unbreakable friendship, it was decided to build transcontinental highway Moscow-Beijing. The people quickly dubbed the future Beijing highway. Time passed, the future highway was quietly being built, but I.V. Stalin passed away, and the new leader of the USSR N.S. Khrushchev did not agree on political views with Mao. Relations with China soured, Khrushchev was branded a revisionist and the great project of two great nations was never completed, but the unofficial name "Beijing" seems to have stuck with this road for a long time.
Currently, between our countries, there are intentions to resume this project. It is assumed that now route St. Petersburg - Beijing will be laid as follows: from St. Petersburg through Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Orenburg, then Aktobe, Kyzylorda, Shymkent, then Taraz, Kordai, Almaty, Khorgos, Urumqi and, finally, Lanzhou, Zhengzhou, Lianyungang. The highway will have three lanes for traffic in each direction. It’s hard to say now whether this project is being implemented or not, but it seems like a Chinese one section of the route is already ready for delivery, and the Kazakh road section will launch soon.
Now daily from Moscow towards Ufa by M7 "Volga" highway about 100,000 cars leave. This causes many kilometers of traffic jams even at the exit from the capital from the Entuziastov highway to Balashikha, but this section M-7 highway is in the best condition. People who are forced to regularly travel along this highway speak about it something like this: “This hellish road is always there, everywhere, at any time and in any direction.”
The section to Nizhny Novgorod is characterized by high traffic intensity. Further from N. Novgorod to Kazan, the traffic density decreases. After Kazan, the highway finally switches to two-lane mode. There are areas with repair work.
Highway M-7 "Volga" has a very developed infrastructure. On the Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod section alone there are more than 1,500 motels, cafes, hotels and repair services.
Meaning, which goes through such large cities as Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Ufa, Kazan and Vladimir. The road also has access to a number of other cities, and part of the European route E22 belongs to E017.
Despite the fact that the Siberia, Irtysh, Amur and Baikal highways are continuations of the M-5, the M-7 is considered the main highway connecting the Far East with the European part of Russia, since it provides the shortest route from Moscow to the eastern regions.
basic information
This highway starts in the east of the capital, from the intersection of the Entuziastov Highway and the Moscow Ring Road, but it is worth noting that all distances are measured from the center of Moscow. Later it passes through the Vladimir, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod regions, as well as the republics of Chuvashia, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. Its total length is 1351 kilometers.
In addition, the highway also includes various access roads to:
- Ivanov, length is 101 km;
- Cheboksary, western entrance - 11 km, eastern - 3 km;
- Izhevsk, length reaches 165 km;
- Perm, length 294 km.
It is also worth noting that the M-7 highway includes the Southern Bypass of Vladimir, which is 54 km long, as well as Nizhny Novgorod, which is 16 km long.
The road itself passes through slightly hilly terrain, and in some areas there are steppe and wooded-swampy areas. Temperature conditions on a given road are often absolutely the same, and in January the average temperature is -10 o C, and in July - +20 o C.
For a long time, a project to extend the highway was hatched, and it was supposed to go from Ufa through the Zhukovskaya interchange with the M-5 highway, as well as through the villages of Taptykovo, Berezovka, Zhukovo, Bulgakovo and further through Kartaly up to the Russian border with Kazakhstan. Ultimately, the M-7 Volga highway was never developed, since due to the existence of the Mezhgorye Closed Administrative Unit, the project was not approved, although the project route area in the area of the Zhukovskaya interchange was nevertheless built up.
Moscow region
Through the Vladimir and Moscow regions, this route passes through flat areas of swamps located in Various watercourses that were changed during the construction process, as well as relatively high humidity, negatively affect the condition of the M-7 Volga highway. Within the boundaries of the region, the road is quite straight, and the only exception is the 52nd km, located under the A-107 overpass, and does not have any strong longitudinal slopes. It is also worth noting that the road here passes through a fairly large number of settlements and traffic lights.
Almost throughout the entire territory where the M-7 highway runs, the direction has at least four lanes, with each of them having a width of more than 3.5 meters. Throughout the entire section, the road has an improved asphalt concrete surface, and in most dangerous and high-speed sections it is also equipped with an axial barrier. In the period from 2005 to 2007, capital work was also carried out on the vast majority of overpasses and bridges, and from 2006 to 2008, interchanges were also built on the 52nd km of the track. From May to June 2008, the pavement of the section from the 68th to the 79th km was restored, and in the fall the bridge located at the 86th kilometer was also repaired.
In 2009, they decided to repair the coating and also install an axial fence on the 33-37th km section, and at the end of the year it was also decided to install specialized cameras for recording violations in particularly dangerous areas. In 2010, axial barriers and an additional chamber stand were also installed, located at the 66th km.
Special attention should be paid to the fact that the condition of the M-7 highway is constantly updated and modernized. In 2012, a large-scale improvement of the lighting system was carried out, and traffic lights equipped with a specialized time counter were installed, and the next year an overground pedestrian crossing was built.
Attractions
As mentioned above, there are a lot of significant places near which the M-7 highway is located. The route includes the following attractions:
- The estate of the princes Golitsyn, which is located in Balashikha.
- The house in which Sergei Fedorovich Pankratov lived, which is a unique manifestation of personal creativity.
- The Assumption Church, located in the village of Bogoslovo, on the 64th kilometer of the journey.
Vladimir region
The kilometer-long diagram of the M-7 Volga highway shows that in the Vladimir region the road differs in many respects from the Moscow one in that it runs along a more rugged terrain, which provides for the presence of a greater number of longitudinal slopes and bends, which can somewhat complicate traffic.
The section that runs from the border of the Vladimir region to Vladimir itself includes a fragment with four-lane traffic. On this section, the construction of the M-7 bypass highway was carried out in such a way that dividing barriers along the axis are encountered only periodically, and the traffic intensity on this interval is approximately 40,000 vehicles per day. Due to the fact that the route is quite congested and insufficiently equipped, traffic along it is intense and sometimes quite dangerous, especially in unfavorable weather conditions.
The southern bypass of the city of Vladimir, which has a length of 54 km, has only a two-lane road for the first fifteen kilometers, and the further section already has four lanes with a normal dividing line. It is worth noting that you can get to Nizhny Novgorod through the Southern Bypass of Vladimir, which was opened in 2001. You can also do this along the old section of the highway, passing directly through Vladimir from the north. It is worth noting that its length is approximately 2 kilometers less compared to the Southern Bypass. After the M-7 highway was repaired, 15 traffic lights appeared on it, and as a result, traffic jams can be noticed during rush hours. Special attention should be paid to the fact that from the 193rd to the 222nd kilometer the road has only two lanes.
Further along the Vladimir region, the route passes along a fairly satisfactory four-lane highway, often with dividing fences (except for some settlements), so it does not cause any special complaints.
Posts
The construction of the M-7 highway was carried out in parallel with the construction of checkpoints, and the government made sure that there were enough of them to ensure maximum safe traffic. Thus, the following posts can be distinguished:
- At the junction of the Southern Bypass near the village of Penkino and the Northern Bypass of Vladimir. In this location, a car radar or camera is often located behind the eighth lighting pole, if you count in the direction from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod.
- In the Vyaznikovsky district (approximately 285th kilometer). A specially camouflaged tripod is installed here, which is located in the area of the village of Kourkovo in front of the overpass across the railway, and the crew itself is located directly next to the bridge. It is worth noting that the direction of control may change from time to time, and sometimes it is carried out from the Moscow side, and sometimes from the Nizhny Novgorod side.
- In the village of Simontsevo (approximately 276th kilometer). The duty post along with the radar is located in the dividing gap opposite the cafe, located in the center of the village. Here control is already exercised over both directions of movement at once.
Nizhny Novgorod Region
It is worth noting that in the Nizhny Novgorod region, for the most part, the highway section is covered with a fairly good road. The total width of the road here ranges from two to six lanes, and its length itself is 250 kilometers. At the moment, this section of the route passes directly through Nizhny Novgorod, and every day more than 45 thousand cars pass through the M-7 highway. Hotels are located almost along the entire stretch of road, constantly accepting more and more new guests. The choice is large, you can choose an option to suit your pocket.
Southern bypass
This is a relatively new bypass road, which includes a section of track that fully meets all modern quality and safety requirements. In terms of its level of execution, it is a highway with a dividing lawn, as well as various metal fenders along the edges, with an embankment height of 12-22 m. It is worth noting that this highway has not yet been completed, so it breaks off at the intersection with the road P158. After this, they indicated that they were already going to Bolshoye Mokroe and, approximately in the Kstovo area, they were leading out onto the main road.
The construction and reconstruction of the M-7 highway in the Southern Bypass area has been going on since 1984. The first stage, which is 16 kilometers long, connected this road with P125, and its construction was carried out between 1984 and 1993, including a bridge crossing over the Oka River. The second stage, passing through P125 and P158, having a length of 14.5 kilometers, was laid in just two and a half years, and it opened in 2008. The third and fourth were never built due to the fact that the state was unable to finance construction work due to the economic crisis. In 2010, after a proposal from Sergei Ivanov, it was decided to work out a plan for the construction of the third stage, where public-private partnerships would also be used with the further organization of tolls. The third section had a length of 46 kilometers, and the costs of its construction are estimated at 20 billion rubles.
At the beginning of 2016, the construction of the third stage of the Southern Bypass was already at its final stage. The roadway and main utilities have already been laid, as well as artificial structures erected. Among the remaining work, it is worth noting the laying of two additional oil pipelines, as well as the installation of another power line, followed by laying the final layer of the roadway. Travel along this section opens in 2016, and it is worth noting that the dates were originally planned for 2017. The operational movement should be launched by July 25, and final commissioning will not occur until late August or early September, after the necessary tests have been carried out.
The fourth stage of the Southern Bypass will presumably be the longest and most expensive section, and its length will be about 40 kilometers. Through the construction of this section, it will subsequently be possible to provide a complete bypass of Kstov and Nizhny Novgorod, providing access to the main M-7 Volga highway. Financing for this stage will be organized exclusively from the federal budget, and its construction is planned to be completed before the 2018 World Cup.
Nizhny Novgorod - border with Chuvashia
Afterwards, the route continues along the Kazan Highway, after which it comes out onto the M-7 highway. Photo clearly shows how noticeably the relief changes, as a fairly large number of steep ascents and descents appear. The section has a fairly high accident rate because the road has only two lanes, but there is no dividing line on it. The quality of the surface is average, and only periodically the authorities carry out repair work. On this section of the road you can only find the town of Vorotynets, as well as the cities of Lyskovo and Kstovo, through which the M-7 highway passes. Gas stations are also quite rare.
Chuvashia
The so-called Gorky Highway passes through the Chuvash Republic, the length of which is from 160 to 170 kilometers. On the way of this road there are a lot of geographical objects, including Cheboksary, the Sura River, the city of Tsivilsk and many others. Due to the fact that Chuvashia itself is characterized by predominantly hilly and ravine terrain, in many sections of the highway the road surface is not of the highest quality. In 2013, a bridge was built across the Sura for vehicles to cross, and roads began to be built at various sections of the approach to that bridge. At most major intersections of bypass roads there is an established traffic light control, but it works mainly only during the day.
Bridge over the Volga
Before the construction of a road bridge across the Volga on M-7 began, the route initially ran in Tatarstan, and returned to Chuvashia again at approximately the ninth kilometer. At the same time, two ferries were regularly launched, which could transport various cargo vehicles.
After the bridge, located near the village of Naberezhnye Morkvashi, was put into operation in 1990, the M-7 highway was changed, and a new section was built in Tatarstan, passing through a picturesque place at the updated bridge intersection with Svyaga near Isakovo. Later, in the Verkhneuslonsky district, a four-lane road begins after the turn from Ulyanovsk.
Which is located near Nizhniye Vyazovye, is still functioning today, and one ferry runs through it for trucks, cars and pedestrians. In winter, it is customary to organize a special ice crossing there, along which passenger cars can travel.
For some time, on various maps (including electronic ones), the M-7 highway near Tyurlema was indicated by two separate roads - this is the new one, which led to the bridge over the Volga River, and the old one, going through the ferry to Zelenodolsk.
Tatarstan
After the bridge over the Volga ends, the route goes around Kazan via the Kazan Bypass Road, where it also crosses the Kazanka River.
Further the road goes through the Pestrechinsky district. A fairly large amount of work was carried out here aimed at extending the bypass road to R-239, making it a full-fledged four-lane highway. Further, the route in the format of a 2x2 road runs to the village of Shali, where it ends at a two-level interchange, from which there is also access to the P-239 highway. After this junction there is a two-lane road again.
The continuation of the four-lane highway can be seen again only at the 900th kilometer, and it is located at the entrance to the Rybno-Slobodsky district. At the end of the Pestrechinsky district, the road goes through the Mamadyshsky and Rybnoslobodsky districts. It is worth noting that 20-30 kilometers before the Mamadysh exit, which the highway bypasses to the south, there is a large parking lot with a fish market, and the highway here is two-lane. But after the bridge over the Kirmyanka River, the route again divides into four streams, and so it goes through a new bridge over the Vyatka River, passing through the Yelabuga region. The Elabuga bypass road also has four lanes, and three kilometers after the bypass there is a connection with the highway towards Mendeleevsk.
All this information can be quite useful for those who do not know where the M-7 highway is, or who need to cross some sections of it. Thanks to detailed explanations, you can not only overcome various obstacles, but also visit a lot of attractions, having a pleasant time along the way.
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