Passes through the territory of the Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Irkutsk regions and the Krasnoyarsk Territory. It is a formal extension to the east of the route R254 "Irtysh", together with which it is part of the Asian route AH6

Departures from cities

• Novosibirsk
  • To the north towards Tomsk and Kemerovo.
• Tomsk
  • South towards Novosibirsk.
• Kemerovo
  • West toward Novosibirsk
• Mariinsk
  • To the east towards the cities of Achinsk and Krasnoyarsk
  • To the southwest towards the cities of Kemerovo and Novosibirsk
• Achinsk
  • East towards Krasnoyarsk
  • To the west towards the cities of Mariinsk and Kemerovo
• Krasnoyarsk
  • To the east towards Kansk and Irkutsk.
  • To the west towards Achinsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo and Tomsk
• Kansk
  • To the east towards Taishet
  • To the southwest towards Krasnoyarsk
• Nizhneudinsk
  • To the west towards the cities of Alzamai, Taishet, Kansk, Krasnoyarsk
  • To the southeast towards the cities of Tulun and Irkutsk
• Tulun
  • To the west towards the cities of Nizhneudinsk, Taishet, Kansk, Krasnoyarsk
  • To the 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 at the exit from 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 in Barlaksky. There are no positions! Everywhere there is a high fender, also with a chute for draining water / dirt along the edge of the roadway. Machine speeds are great! After 500 meters behind the interchange there is bus stop, you can try to vote in its acceleration band.
• Turn to Sokur. There are also no positions. Also a bump stop and after 300 meters a bus stop with a lane for regular transport.
• Bypass Moshkovo. After 300 meters from the lapel to the city there is a slow railway crossing with lanterns. It makes sense to walk to it.
• Closed traffic police post near Bolotny. 126 km from Novosibirsk. If you have left Novosibirsk "locally", then it already makes sense to "take root" 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". Speedy place. To the post 8 km. you can drive locally.
• DPS post at the turn to Yurga. Limitation 50 km/h. We pass behind the post, where the chipper ends, and get up at the exit from the impound lot, in front of the last lamp. It makes no sense to agree closer to Kemerovo, but it is better to catch at least as far as Krasnoyarsk.
• Topkinskaya roundabout (226 km). The beginning of the Kemerovo bypass. 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 "Southern bypass" to the Sukho-Rechenskaya interchange and catch the checkpoint through the city there. If your car turns to Kemerovo, then you can drive it to the center and already get out of the city to Krasnoyarsk by public transport.
• Traffic police post "Rudnichny" at the exit from Kemerovo. We vote at the gas station "Lukoil" immediately after 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.
• Before reaching 20 km to Mariinsk, there will be a turn to the village of upper-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 "meanest" cities for hitchhikers in the Russian Federation. There is no bypass, the highway winds around the city. In the city itself there is a distillery, correctional institutions. The population either drives alcohol, or sits, or guards. For these reasons, we do not recommend getting into the city. If the car ends its journey 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 2nd pier. From the Mariinsk bus station there is a bus to this village, here is the schedule.
• Beyond the village of Suslovo there is a railway crossing across the Trans-Siberian. Equipped with automatic barriers and a duty booth. There is one lantern on each side of the crossing. Compared to the Mariinsky, this can be considered a "good position".
• A large two-story traffic police post outside Bogotol. Already the Krasnoyarsk Territory. We vote at the last lantern, where the bump stop ends. We catch a checkpoint 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 sorts of industrial zones and dumb fences. If, nevertheless, they did not catch the checkpoint in advance, then they themselves are to blame. Read the article about departures from Achinsk.
• New roundabout at the turn to Abakan. Around the taiga! There are no lights, but the roadside is wide.
• We pass Krasnoyarsk along the northern bypass. The denouement for Yemelyanovo is all in the fenders. You can vote only at the beginning of it, at the blue pointer to Irkutsk. The interchange with the Yenisei tract is also full of chippers, but you can vote on the acceleration lane at the end of it, near the asphalt plant.
• Turn to Minusinsk. Right behind the junction is a large truck stop with cafes, a motel, tire shops and more. Item "disaster medicine". At the end of it all - a gas station with lanterns.
• Turn to Aginskoye. Roundabout. There are no lights or posts. After 300 meters, there is a small gas station on the side of the road with four lamps on it.
• The large city of Kansk is 247 km from Krasnoyarsk. Another "mean town" for hitchhikers. There is no bypass, zones, military units and fittings factories ... The route winds through the entire center and extended industrial zones ... We recommend taking a passing car in advance or getting out by public transport, see the description of Kansk. [The southern bypass of Kansk is currently under construction. They promise to build by 2020. ]
• DPS post at the turn to Biryusa, in front of Taishet. The border of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Irkutsk region. If the car is going to Taishet, DEFINITELY go out at the post and catch the car to Irkutsk. It makes no sense to go to the turn itself, we vote at the last lantern immediately after the post.
• Turn to Taishet. High-speed place with fenders! It's better not to come here! Around the "zone" and "colony-settlement" ...
• Alzamay we pass along the bypass.
• Nizhneudinsk. Another "criminal center of Russia" without a bypass road. Better not get hit! Industrial zones, slag collectors, secret bases, military training grounds, fences with towers, etc. stretch along the highway for ten kilometers ... At the very exit from the city, a gas station with two lanterns.
• Tulun (390 km. to Irkutsk) - "sidekick" of its neighbor Nizhneudinsk. Again, no bypass! Again, zones, warehouses, towers, an oil plant, 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 there turns a considerable% of the cars. At the roundabout, among the fences and garbage dumps, there are lanterns only on the circle itself, but the roads leaving the circle are dark and dumb even during the day. And next to it are five-story buildings with gopniks ... In general, do you understand already? If you don’t want to walk along Hydrolyznaya Street past the flooded coal pits, leave the car that turns into Bratsk (or goes to Tulun itself) 10 kilometers before the city and catch the checkpoint.
• If in front of Tulun you come across a through car through the city, but not to Irkutsk, then you can get out of it after 25 after Tulun, at the railway crossing through the Trans-Siberian Railway in front of the village of Sheragul. There are lights, but the curb is narrow. However, the car can be stopped!
• Another slow railway crossing in front of the Tulyushka station. The name is associated with the Buryat "tulikha" - "to suffer". So, if you do not want to suffer voting in numerous villages, it is high time to catch a direct car to Irkutsk! However, on the "Tulyushkinsky" ("painful") crossing there are lights, and immediately after the crossing there is a wide comfortable roadside.
• Interchange with a turn to Sayansk. 266 km to Irkutsk. There are no fenders or lights. High-speed section of the route - two lanes in each direction.
• Huge interchange near Zalari station. Turn to Zhigalovo. It is exactly 200 km to Irkutsk. There are no lights or fenders at the intersection. There is a speed limit "50", but who observes it there?!
• Pgt Kutulik. By roundabout.
• Roundabout with the highway Cheremkhovo-Golumet. 140 km to Irkutsk. What is called "in an open field" - no lanterns, no fenders.
• The industrial city of Usolie-Sibirskoe. Again, no bypass. The route goes straight through the center, sandwiched between the Trans-Siberian and the Angara. There must be buses to Angarsk. Find out - report!
• Angarsk bypass. Electric trains run to Irkutsk (except for buses and minibuses). If traffic jams are expected at the entrance to Irkutsk (for example, on Sunday evening), then look at the schedule, it may be faster to bypass them on a suburban train.
• If you don’t need to go to Irkutsk itself, then we turn off along with the trucks to the Western Bypass. The whole interchange is in the fenders. Lanterns end behind the bridge over the river. Veresovka, the "acceleration lane" ends there, and we vote behind this bridge.

Let's look at the route R258 "Baikal" (former M55 )

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 not only to truck drivers.

From Western Siberia to Eastern

M53, referred to as "Siberia" for short, passes through the Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo regions and the Krasnoyarsk Territory. It ends in In some sources, this road is designated by the code word "Baikal", which is fundamentally wrong - the largest in the world freshwater lake is located east of Irkutsk, where it ends. This designation can be considered correct only for the entire historical path from the Urals to Baikal. And the M53 highway is only 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. Total length of this road is 1860 kilometers. When moving from west to east of the country, the M53 highway is a direct continuation of the federal highway M51 "Irtysh", going from Southern Urals to Novosibirsk via Kurgan and Omsk. And east of Irkutsk, movement in the direction Pacific Ocean continues along the federal highway M55, going in the direction of Ulan-Ude and further to Chita.

From the history of communications

The modern one on the map is the distance on the historical path from central Russia to the Pacific Ocean. This oldest Trans-Siberian land route appeared in the middle of the eighteenth century. Of course, in those distant times there were no bridge crossings over the great Siberian rivers, and various sections of the route, referred to in historical sources as the "Moscow tract", did not differ in stability. In many areas, they were duplicated and were more likely directions of movement than fully equipped roads. But bridges and roads were built gradually, as Russian Empire to the East. And one of the bridge crossings is well known even to those who have never been to Siberia. The M53 highway passes in Krasnoyarsk along the bridge across the Yenisei. It is he who is depicted on a banknote of ten rubles.

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 routes of federal importance. In particular, they are designated by the prefix "M", as coming from Moscow. But at the same time, the former system of codification temporarily remains in force. It will expire on January 1, 2018. IN new system There is no codification of routes, their division into categories - into main and secondary ones. But the trend of increasing serial numbers of tracks as they move away from the capital remains.

Highway M53 today

At present, the construction of the federal highway "Siberia" can by no means be called completed. Despite the fact that along the entire route, cargo and Passenger Transportation, in many of its sections, the road surface leaves much to be desired, and often does not exist at all. Work on the repair and construction of the route never stopped. The infrastructure of the roadside service also needs to be improved. The builders of the route have to overcome significant difficulties. This is primarily due to complex soils. For a considerable distance, they require preliminary strengthening before they can be erected an embankment under future road. The route crosses many settlements right along the main street. That's how it happened historically. This did not create any special problems until the beginning of the twentieth century, while the main mode of transport was horse-drawn. But now we have to invest heavily in the construction of bypass sections around settlements.

Distance Novosibirsk - Kemerovo

At its initial stage, the M53 passes mainly through flat terrain. From Novosibirsk the road leaves in a northerly direction, to Tomsk. But she does not enter this city, turning right onto Kemerovo. Before Tomsk, you should 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 roadbed throughout the 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 route. Hard road surface is not available here in all areas. Particularly difficult is the segment of the route Kemerovo - Mariinsk, passing through an elevated area. The road here crosses a large taiga massif, and its outlines acquire a serpentine character. After Mariinsk, the track levels out and the road becomes calmer. Behind the former traffic police post "Bogotol" is a convenient place for parking and rest. Roadside service structures are available in the form of cafes and motels. After Achinsk, traffic on the highway becomes more lively, this is affected by the approach big city- Krasnoyarsk. The M53 highway passes the city itself along its outskirts, along the northern bypass. And then there is the final section of the path to Irkutsk. On this segment there are difficult sections of the road, without a hard surface. Most of them are located in the Taishet region. It is especially difficult here when precipitation falls.

What you need to remember on the track "Siberia"

Driving on Siberian roads has its own specifics. It is determined by geography and climate. The map of the M53-route is able to demonstrate what a great distance one has to overcome here on the way from one settlement to another. Any equipment failure along the way can leave you alone with the problems that have arisen. Therefore, it is best to travel along the Siberian routes, as was customary in ancient times, as part of caravans. This is especially true in winter time. The climate in Siberia is sharply continental, with a large annual temperature difference. This means that it can get quite hot in summer and very cold in winter. Very often there are also snow drifts, which greatly complicate movement along the highway.

Moscow gates in Irkutsk

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

As a result, there was a huge traffic jam in the area of ​​the city of Usolye-Sibirskoye. A few days later, after the intervention of the Ministry of Transport, local road services carried out repairs. However, the condition of the track is still a matter of concern.

“Chekhov traveled from Tomsk to Irkutsk for two weeks via Mariinsk, Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kansk. For more than 2000 versts he traveled along a terrible road, splashed in the mud, lingered at stations for 10-15 hours due to breakdowns in his carriage, walked many versts on foot".

120 years after Anton Pavlovich Chekhov visited these places, in terms of roads, nothing seems to have changed here. Hundreds of trucks loaded to the top with goods from all over the world turned into a single car clot. Selective swearing in truck cabs, offices of high officials and the first issue of all television news. As often happens, the road disappeared suddenly. The Nizhne Ingashsky segment of the M-53 highway became the site of the loss of dozens of vehicles and hundreds of tons of cargo.

“For three days they dragged cars, pierced pallets. You see what kind of cobblestones are lying around, tearing off 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, which have spent several days standing in the wagon, look absolutely driven. People spent four days in unsanitary conditions, without food and water. Burning fuel to heat the cars, truckers lined up for a caterpillar tractor. This tractor was the only salvation from the mud captivity.

- You go to the end drag! It still won't go there.

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

The first 300 kilometers from Krasnoyarsk to Nizhny Ingash, the first acquaintance with the M-53 "Baikal" highway could already be enough for a volume of memories or a good strand 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 pointer! What?! Is this a federal highway?

- Does not look like it!

On the fifth day, road services restored traffic along the highway both in the direction of Irkutsk and in the direction of Krasnoyarsk. Let it be slowly, even with the risk of breaking the axle or losing the wheel, but.

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

This, rather, is not even a repair of an emergency section, but the restoration of traffic in any way. The road builders laid concrete slabs right into the swamp. And, it seems, from that moment began the countdown for this segment of the journey. According to the road builders, this is the so-called "temporary". Until spring, they say, it will last, and there the big reconstruction is just around the corner.

“Attention has been paid 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,” says CEO OOO "Road Construction Company" Nikolai Jung.

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

- Thus we celebrate the day of the driver. They bought sheep with a car company, traffic cops, and bosses. And they call me in the morning: your car is in a ditch.

- Note!

Dmitry says that for ten years already, driving along the M-53 every time resembles a game of Russian roulette. He calls the section of the road from Ingash to Reshet, about 60 kilometers long, a terrible road. And thanks God that this time there were no casualties.

“There is a sharp turn here. A car jumped out towards him. He had no choice: he pressed the brakes and he skidded and fell into a ditch. Thankfully, he didn’t crush it much, but the car doesn’t have a marketable appearance. Thank God that the driver survived,” - says the driver Dmitry Kutsko.

On this slope, two cars went into a ditch at once. In anticipation of help, sometimes whole days pass. 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 soil is damp, the swamp is below, it is sinking. It staggers. It's a pity for the car! We get money, everything," says driver Sergey Bagritsov.

The road is slippery like 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 miraculously the car hangs on the very edge of the road.

- Highway M-53 and we are here too!

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

- Pull out the car!

Our colleagues were much less fortunate. Just a few hours after our departure to the side of the road, a car with a film crew of the Rossiya TV channel was in a serious accident. It 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, 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 off into a ditch. We rolled over several times, the car hit a tree, and now, in fact, in this state, "explains Dmitry Kaistro, correspondent of the Rossiya TV channel.

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

"I hear here how it shot, how it hooted! How frightened I was. And everything was on me, bulkhead. Well, not on my head, but on my hand. I was frightened, I don’t know where to run. I crawled out into the street. Open the gate, But I can’t. I shout: guard! Guard! But there is no one. Everyone is there, "says Valentina Goncharova, a resident of the village of Verkhniy Ingash.

Residents of numerous villages through which the highway passes are afraid to cross the road. Having escaped onto a decent piece of the road, the tractors are trying to overtake each other to make up for lost time. The dilapidated houses are barely holding up.

“The noise is big, the cars are coming, we can’t cross the old road. We walk with a cane. And we’re afraid, such cars are coming now. They didn’t go like that before. Luzan.

In the local traffic police, it seems that they are already used to frequent accidents. This is a common thing on the way from Krasnoyarsk to Irkutsk.

“People get tired when driving on a bad road. Because of this, all these congresses occur. From the fatigue of drivers and from the fact that they are driving for a long time. There is practically no control over this now,” said the head of the traffic police department of the ATS in the Nizhneingashsky district Dmitry Trifonov.

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

The sections of the road where the M-53 highway turns into a direction are well known to drivers. And in general, there should not be any heavy-duty Volvos, Scans or Kenwords here. Built several decades ago, in Soviet times, this road was designed for completely different vehicles, the heaviest of which was ZIL-130, well, maximum KAMAZ.

It is the heavy trucks, according to the road builders, that have turned the track into a continuous mess. The director of the road construction company, Nikolai Yung, says that the cars are overloaded, the asphalt coating simply cannot withstand such loads.

“When you stop the driver and ask: how much is loaded with you? According to the documents, he shows 20 tons and the wrong load is written that he has loaded. But we see how the canvas behaves. You can’t deceive us. Our 26-ton dump trucks are loaded , nothing happens. A truck is coming, it immediately cuts through. They have single-tire tires at the rear, "explains Nikolai Jung.

The driver of this broken truck says that this is basically impossible. Truckers are paid only for the cargo that is indicated in the documents. There is no other income. Yes, it is basically impossible to drag a load weighing 60 tons off-road.

- You won't get anywhere in Russia with such a load.

Such mutual accusations of road builders 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 builders, we still received an answer to a directly posed question: who is to blame?

“He is responsible for the entire Baikal Federal Road Administration. I am the head, and accordingly I should 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 Baikal Federal Road Administration.

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 km section. This money will only be enough to patch the road. There is no talk of building a modern coating.

"We have no illusions. We also understand that no one will launch a global construction project here. Those areas that can be brought back to normal with the help of repairs. If reconstruction is needed somewhere, as 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. Driving is completely impossible. Everything is the same as 120 years ago, when Anton Pavlovich Chekhov got stuck between Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk. Some solid directions.

3,1 (75 votes) M-53

Highway P-255 "Siberia"(until January 1, 2018, the use of the old account number M-53 is allowed) - a federal road in Russia. It starts in Novosibirsk, passes through Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk and ends in Irkutsk. The road is a formal extension to the east of the M-51 "Irtysh" route.

The total length is 1,860 km.

Stationary traffic police posts on the highway are located in settlements Lower Ingash at 1068 km and in Usolye-Sibirsky at 1763 km.

The road with many picturesque views, passes through the plains and mountains. There are sections with dangerous turns, steep descents and ascents. In winter, it is necessary to move along the highway very carefully, snow drifts and ice occur. There is a section of serpentine on the segment Kemerovo - Mariinsk. The road also crosses significant water barriers, such as: Tom, Kiya, Chulym, Yenisei, Kan, Biryusa, Uda, Oka and Irkut. The infrastructure along the route is well developed, there are cafes, gas stations, medical aid points.

Number of lanes

For 40 km from Novosibirsk there are 4 traffic lanes, then 2 lanes, one in each direction.

State

The road is maintained in good condition, repairs are carried out regularly. There are warning signs in front of uneven road surfaces, after which it is recommended to slow down. The condition of the road allows you to move at high speed, but you should be careful because. the appearance of unexpected pits and bumps is possible. There are 2 gravel sections left on the highway: Tulun - Taishet (about 20 km) and in the Ingash area.

gas stations

45 km - Gazpromneft (to Novosibirsk)

53 km - Gazpromneft (to Novosibirsk)

55 km - Gazpromneft (to Novosibirsk)

149 km - Gazpromneft (to Novosibirsk)

209 km - Gazpromneft (to Novosibirsk)

250 km - Gazpromneft (to Novosibirsk)

344 km - Gazpromneft (to Novosibirsk)

535 km - Gazpromneft (to Novosibirsk)

1044 km - Gazpromneft (from Novosibirsk)

Attractions

Novosibirsk - Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater (1945), Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (1899), Novosibirsk Zoo, Museum of the Sun;

Tomsk - Museum of Local Lore (1838-1886), Museum of the History of Tomsk (1997), Russian-German House, Resurrection Church (1807).

Federal highway M51, M53, M55 "Baikal"- highway of federal significance. Part of the Asian route AH6. Part of the road from Chelyabinsk to Omsk also belongs to the European route E30. Part of the M51 road passes through the territory of Kazakhstan, which can be passed along the bypass through Ishim.

M51 Chelyabinsk - Kurgan - Petropavlovsk (Kazakhstan) - Omsk - Novosibirsk. The length is 1528 km. Then the road passes into the highway M-53 Novosibirsk - Irkutsk.

The road passes through the territory of the Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Omsk and Novosibirsk regions (part of the road (190 km) through the territory of Kazakhstan).
The road throughout its entire length has an asphalt concrete surface with a carriageway width of 7-8 meters.

Information from 05/22/2015: - “Sometimes, first in the Kurgan and then in the Tyumen regions, the road no longer looked like a highway, but like a Kamaz test site: frequent holes, pits, bumps, but here’s how you turn from Berdyugye to Ishim, the real "autobahn" begins. The entire stretch of 80 km is a two-lane ideal quality. So I officially declare: the Berdyugye-Ishim problematic section no longer exists.” -

M53 - - - - . The length is 1860 km.
The road starts in Novosibirsk, heading north towards the city of Tomsk. Without entering Tomsk - for this there is a separate entrance, also called "M-53" - the Baikal highway reaches the city of Kemerovo, the center of the Kemerovo region, without any problems.

Photo of the R-255 Siberia, Krasnoyarsk Territory from May 2015:

Then the road continues towards the city of Krasnoyarsk, passing through the cities of Mariinsk in the Kemerovo Region and Achinsk in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
The section Kemerovo - Mariinsk begins with a serpentine among the Mariinsky taiga, then the road levels out, and the second half goes smoothly and calmly.
The section Mariinsk - Achinsk is also tiringly calm, which again requires constant attention. Approximately in the middle - the Bogotol traffic police post, a complex of cafes and motels. In Achinsk, in addition to the continuation of the M-53 road towards Krasnoyarsk, the road begins in a southerly direction - to Khakassia, which leads to the M-54 highway.
The section Achinsk - Krasnoyarsk is busier than the previous ones - you can feel the approach of a big city. From the village of Kozulka (regional center) the road widens, 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 crossroads is to Krasnoyarsk.
The M-53 highway passes Krasnoyarsk along the northern edge, and goes further east towards Irkutsk.

M55 Irkutsk - Ulan-Ude - Chita. The length is 1113 km.
The road starts in Irkutsk, leaving in a southerly direction. Soon the city of Shelekhov appears, and after a while the road begins to climb the mountain in a serpentine. WITH highest point offers a magnificent (in good weather) view of Baikal, and the village of Kultuk on the shore. Here - rows of smoked fish and souvenirs, nearby, just above the road - a cafe with glass walls.

The road passes through the territory of the Irkutsk and Chita regions, Buryatia.
The main length of the road has an asphalt concrete pavement with a carriageway width of 7 m (there are sections with cement concrete and crushed stone pavement).

Highway M 58 "Amur"

Kilometers of the M-58 "Amur" highway are picturesque landscapes Trans-Baikal Territory, Amur and Jewish Autonomous Regions and Khabarovsk Territory. The road stretches from Baikal to the Pacific Ocean and is part of the global transport corridor Paris-Berlin-Warsaw-Moscow-Vladivostok with access to Asian countries.