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This is a list of Russian federal highways and the motorway portions of them. Note that Russian federal highways in their entirety have often been mistakenly called "motorways" in English, even though they are traditionally two-lane physically undivided roads (i.e. not controlled access highways), due to their traditional name "Avtomagistral" (Автомагистраль) which can be ...
The A1 (Albanian: Autostrada A1), also commonly Rruga e Kombit (lit. ' The Nation's Highway ' ) or SH10, [ 1 ] is the longest and only toll motorway in Albania , stretching 114 kilometres (71 mi) in the counties of Lezhë and Kukës . [ 2 ]
Russian Federal Highways The Russian route R297 or the Amur Highway (so named after the nearby Amur River ) is a federal highway in Russia , part of the Trans-Siberian Highway . With a length of 2,100 km (1,300 mi), it is the longest segment, from Chita to Khabarovsk , connecting the paved roads of Siberia with those of the Russian Far East . [ 1 ]
According to the data of 2010 Russian Census, there are 1,117 cities and towns in Russia. After the Census, Innopolis , a town in the Republic of Tatarstan , was established in 2012 and granted town status in 2015.
In 1938, Villars was classified as one of the prime skiing resorts of Europe. On 13 December 1936, the Orient Express made a special stop in Aigle for a slalom race that took place at Bretaye. That same year a ski lift was built in the form of a sledge. This lift could transport 12 skiers to the peak of the Grand Chamossaire and was in use ...
NATO member Albania on Monday inaugurated a refurbished Soviet-era air base, the alliance's first in the Western Balkan region. The air base is named after the small town of Kucova, 85 kilometers ...
The 1914 edition of Baedeker's Russia describes the Georgian Military Road as 'one of the most beautiful mountain roads in the world', and mentions the fact that, as early as its date of publication, 'motor omnibuses of the Société française des transports automobiles du Caucase ply regularly from April 15 to Oct. 15th, [accomplishing] the ...
Map of Russia with Moscow Oblast highlighted. This is a list of rural localities in Moscow Oblast.Moscow Oblast (Russian: Моско́вская о́бласть, romanized: Moskovskaya oblast, IPA: [mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ]), or Podmoskovye [1] (Russian: Подмоско́вье, IPA: [pədmɐˈskovʲjə], literally "around/near Moscow"), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).