Moscow Ring Road


The Moscow Automobile Ring Road, or MKAD, is a ring road running predominantly on the city border of Moscow with a length of 108.9 km and 35 exits. It was completed in 1962. The speed limit is 100 km/h.

History

The growth of traffic in and around Moscow in the 1950s made the city planners realise that Russia's largest metropolis needed a bypass to redirect incoming traffic from major roads that run through the city. Opened in 1961, the MKAD had four asphalt lanes and ran 108.9 kilometres along the city's borders. Although not yet a freeway, it featured interchanges at major junctions, very few traffic lights, and a speed limit of.
For a long time, the MKAD served as the administrative boundary of Moscow, but in the 1980s the city began annexing territory outside the beltway. In December 2002, Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo became the first Moscow Metro station that opened beyond the limits of the MKAD.
From 1995 to 1999, the road was widened from the initial four to ten lanes; all intersections became grade-separated, pedestrian bridges were built to accommodate pedestrians, traffic lights were removed, and a solid concrete barrier was installed in the median. In 2001, all slow-moving vehicles were banned from entering the MKAD, and the renovated road received a freeway designation from the mayor's office.

Route

Distance
DestinationsNotes
0 km
2 kmPobeda ulitsa — Reutov, Ivanovskoe
4 kmKetcherskaya ulitsa, Nosovikhinskoye ulitsa — Balashikha, Elektrougli
6 kmNovokosino District
7 kmMoldagulovoy ulitsa, Novoukhtomskoe shosse
8 kmNorth-Eastern Chord, Kosinskoe Highway
8 kmRyazansky prospekt, Lermontovsky prospekt — Lyubertsy
11 km
14 kmVerkhniye Polya ulitsa — Kotelniki
16 kmEnergetikov ulitsa, Kapotnya ulitsa — Dzerzhinsky, Kapotnya
20 kmBesedinskoe shosse — Besedy
24 kmKashirskoye Highway
27 km
30 kmBulatnikovo
33 km
35 kmPolyany ulitsa — Butovo
38 kmPaustovskogo ulitsa — Yasenevo
41 km
45 km
48 kmBorovskoye shosse, Ozyornaya ulitsa
55 km
56 kmGorbunova ulitsa — Nemchinovka
60 km
61 kmRublevo-Uspenskoye shosse — Rublevo
63 km
65 kmMyankininsky prospekt — Myakinino
68 km
72 kmNovokurkinskoye shosse — Kurkino
74 kmSvobody ulitsa, Molodezhnaya ulitsa — Kurkino
75 km
78 km
82 km
85 kmAltufyevskoye shosse — Veshki
91 kmOstashskovskaya ulitsa
95 km
103 kmKhabarovskaya ulitsa — Abramtsevo
105 km