Federal highway M58 "Amur". Federal highway M58 "Amur" List of intersections with other roads
The federal highway M-58 Chita - Khabarovsk connected the Far East and Western regions of our country. Now the M58 motorway is part of a huge, longest route in the world - St. Petersburg - Moscow - Vladivostok. The importance of the M-58 Amur highway is difficult to overestimate for our state.
Before the construction of this route, only the West Siberian Railway and the recently opened Baikal-Amur Railway connected the center of Russia with this region. Now any resident of the Far East will be able to reach the Western borders of Russia on their wheels. In addition, the M58 Amur highway is part of the Asian route AN 30.
The M-58 highway began its history at the beginning of the 20th century, and only the 1917 revolution prevented the road from being built to completion. Even now it is often called the Old Moscow Highway.
The total length of the route is approximately 2165 km. It connects the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Amur Region, the Khabarovsk Territory and the Jewish Autonomous Region.
The M58 highway passes through flat, forested and mountainous forested areas.
The road surface is asphalt concrete, the width of the roadway is 7 meters.
The temperature regime is not uniform. The climate varies from dry, sharply continental to humid, temperate continental. Along the entire route, large temperature changes are possible, from -40 in winter to +40 in summer.
Along the route there are approaches to the city of Blagoveshchensk and the port of Vanino.
Since the M58 Amur highway is new, it bypasses many settlements, so cafes and hotels are not often found along the way. Traffic police posts and traffic cop ambushes are even less common.
Peculiarity new route The problem is that it took a very long time to build, and if the new sections leave no complaints, the sections that have already been deformed by trucks for several years. For example, in the Londoko area (1840 - 1922 km of the M58 highway), the road surface has subsided, and driving resembles rocking on sea waves. The speed on this section is no more than 60 km/h. And in the Shimansk area, a small layer of asphalt was broken by heavy vehicles.
In general, the M-58 Amur highway leaves a favorable impression. Particularly pleasing are the large, equipped rest areas, where there are overpasses, toilets and tables with canopies. In addition, the beautiful view from the observation decks allows you to fully enjoy the Far Eastern landscapes.
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The beginning of the road is located at the eastern edge of the city of Chita, its final border is the left bank of the Amur River.
The length of the M58 highway is 2097 kilometers, the width of the roadbed is 12 meters, the roadway is 7 meters with two lanes. The road surface is lightweight, improved asphalt. The M58 highway crosses large rivers: Bureya, Zeya, Amur. Settlements on the road and near it: Blagoveshchensk, Birobidzhan, Chita, Never, Svobodny, Arkhara. Since October 2011, mobile communications from the following operators have been operating along the entire highway: MTS, Beeline, Megafon.
The M58 highway was built in difficult natural conditions with frequent changes in climatic zones, including mountainous areas, forests and steppes. The highway is lightly loaded; the main vehicles on the road are heavy vehicles.
Along the highway there are gas stations, traffic police posts, catering and medical aid points, as well as small hotels and motels. The main attractions of the route are panoramic views the surrounding area and of course populated areas such as the city of Blagoveshchensk, founded in 1856. The construction of the Amur highway began in 1978 and was completed in September 2010. To commemorate this event, a memorial sign “Zero kilometer of the Chita-Khabarovsk Federal Highway” was erected in the city of Khabarovsk.
When we drove along the Chita-Khabarovsk highway in 2012. Even then it became clear that the road was “on fire.” Despite the fact that the road was richly decorated with bumpers, from time to time near the pipes laid through the streams, subsidence of the road surface began even then, which tossed cars up like on a springboard. What is happening now on the “presidential” highway, which has really greatly simplified the road to the Far East? An article about this from Gazeta.Ru by Alina Raspopova. Comments on the text are mine.
Putin's highway in Khabarovsk scared officials
Authorities discovered that sections of the new federal highway Chita - Khabarovsk are in terrible conditionThe quality of the Chita-Khabarovsk federal highway, opened four years ago, shocked Amur officials. It turned out that driving along this highway poses a real threat to life. A few years after Putin’s epoch-making motor rally in a yellow Lada Kalina, the road greets motorists with countless potholes, dips and wreaths at the side of the road.
Governor of the Amur Region Oleg Kozhemyako was horrified by the state of certain sections of the Chita-Khabarovsk federal highway. He was able to evaluate their quality during a multi-day trip to the northern regions of the region.
“With a speed limit of 90 km/h, driving on such a road was a threat to life. You can’t drive on it: there’s a hole in the hole, there’s subsidence after subsidence,” Kozhemyako said at a special meeting following the inspection held on Wednesday. “No modern trauma centers along the highway will solve the problems that exist on our roads.”
The governor was especially struck by the Magdagachi-Taldan section of the federal highway, which he called “a mockery of the highway.”
As the governor noted, “the wreaths along the road spoke for themselves.”
The meeting was attended by heads of the regional prosecutor's office, the traffic police department and the regional ministry of transport. The head of the road safety department of the Federal State Institution “Interregional Directorate for Road Construction in the Far Eastern Region of Russia” Sergei Dolgiy was also invited.
“If you had asked the contractors in a timely manner and made claims against them regarding the quality of the roads for the maintenance of which they are responsible, this situation could have been avoided,” Kozhemyako addressed Sergei Dolgy as a representative of the customer for the construction of the Amur highway. “Either you are taking measures now, or we, together with the regional prosecutor’s office and the traffic police, will be forced to take them ourselves.”
Road on the edge of the country
Let us recall that the construction of the Chita-Khabarovsk highway was under the personal control of Vladimir Putin. The highway, more than 2,000 km long, passes through the territories of the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Amur Region, the Jewish Autonomous Okrug and the Khabarovsk Territory and, for the first time in the history of the country, provided end-to-end year-round automobile traffic, connecting the road network of the Far East with the core road network of Russia.
The first to test 2,097 km of the still unfinished highway in August 2010 was Vladimir Putin, who at that time held the post of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. He covered the entire route in AvtoVAZ’s then-new, canary-colored Lada Kalina.
The famous Lada Kalina on the Chita-Khabarovsk highway ©RIA Novosti “Until now there was no road between Chita and Khabarovsk. Finally we did it. We have to look,” the prime minister noted before the trip.
After the end of the run, the prime minister admitted that about 500 km of the road are subject to major reconstruction, and the highway itself “looks not like a federal highway, but like a good country road, nothing more.” In addition, Putin was outraged by the “lack of infrastructure on the route” - an insufficient number of roadside cafes, campsites and the lack of mobile communications. Nevertheless, three months later the highway was officially opened.
Meanwhile, Gazeta.Ru journalists previously drove along the Chita-Khabarovsk highway twice: immediately after its launch and three years later. One of the first discoveries was the complete absence of traffic police officers on the highway. After publications on this topic, Putin demanded that the highway be equipped with traffic police posts and promised to drive along it again, but recently abandoned the idea, citing lack of time.
The absence of police on the highway amazed us in 12. As if . The secret is simple - no one wants to stand in the middle of the taiga without much hope of making money
Putin's abandoned road
There is practically no infrastructure along the entire road. In the first 300 km we encountered only two makeshift gas stations. Drivers refuel here only as a last resort: the gasoline is of low quality and diluted either with water or something else. Cars after such refueling begin to choke and stall. Drivers of cars parked here can wait more than a day for help.
There is no communication here, the traffic police are not patrolling the highway yet. There is no cell phone reception along almost the entire length of the highway.
At that time, about 1,500 km of the Chita-Khabarovsk highway was superior in quality to many roads in Central Russia. However, even then more than 600 km of the Amur needed major repairs, some of which were built just a few years ago, but are now broken down.
Highway Chita - Khabarovsk in 2013
Almost three years after construction on the section of M58 in the Trans-Baikal Territory (from Chita), the two-lane winding road is quite smooth, without serious damage.
There are even bumpers on the roadsides: having driven all over Russia from Murmansk to Vladivostok, such quality of pavement far from rich metropolises can rarely be found.
True, it immediately catches your eye that there are practically no cars on the deserted Amur, just like three years ago. Unlike 2010, there is cellular communication along the entire length of the highway right up to Khabarovsk, but traffic police officers, as in 2010, have not met once over two thousand kilometers.
Towards the middle of the journey, the road gradually begins to deteriorate, and here the main problem that drivers face becomes clear. Either the designers did not take into account the climate, or the materials were not best quality, but several hundred kilometers after Chita, more and more often you come across areas with subsided soil, where the asphalt goes in waves.
Irregularities, as a rule, are marked with a corresponding sign, but the signs are not everywhere, so in front of almost all such areas you can easily notice numerous brake marks.
There are practically no gas stations on the M58 (especially on the section after Chita): the gap between the nearest ones reaches several hundred kilometers.
On the way back, due to the foppish habit of refueling at decent gas stations, we passed an insufficiently attractive one. We thought we wouldn’t make it - there could easily be 200 km between gas stations. Prices for food and any other goods along the route are noticeably higher than the national average. The catering situation on Amur is still worse than the gas stations. There is almost no place to have a snack on the way from Chita to Khabarovsk. Standing apart is the Khutorok cafe on the 1274th km of the highway, where Vladimir Putin stopped for a snack during his motor rally.
A typical cafe on the Chita-Khabarovsk highway. It is usually held by people from the Caucasus, who are clearly ready to stand up for their business. The closer you get to Khabarovsk, the worse the road surface becomes. A very bad site is found not far from Blagoveshchensk: asphalt was laid here earlier than in other places. In some areas, repairs are already in full swing at the beginning of March. The road here turns into a real obstacle course. In order to easily overcome unpleasant unpaved sections, the length of which sometimes reaches several kilometers, the speed has to be reduced to a minimum.
The bumps in the road are probably what I remember most. I won’t forget how the car in front of us jumped almost a meter! The president of the association of road research organizations RODOS, Oleg Skvortsov, explained to Gazeta.Ru that the appearance of problem areas on the highway is not due to their improper operation, but to a violation of the water and thermal regime.
“There is permafrost there. After the construction of the road, in some cases, due to the disturbance of the vegetation cover and the creation of ditches, the process of thawing of this permafrost begins, explains Skvortsov. - This is where the drawdowns come from. This question has not been fully explored. Road workers in America and Canada are facing similar problems, and they also have not yet found a solution. About a year ago, Rosavtodor held a meeting on this topic, where I attended, and even then it became clear that they did not yet have solutions, as well as specialists who could deal with this.”
Video about the M58 Chita-Khabarovsk highway
The Russian Geographical Society and the My Planet channel made a film Highway M-58 "Amur" Chita-Khabarovsk from the series Eastern Russia. The film tells about the history of its construction, the sights of Nerchinsk, and the construction of the Bureyskaya hydroelectric power station. Starred in episodes Putin on a yellow Lada Kalina.
Federal highway M58 "Amur" is a federal highway Chita - Khabarovsk.
Chita - Never - Svobodny - Arkhara - Birobidzhan - Khabarovsk. The route is part of the Asian route AH30 Chita - Khabarovsk - Ussuriysk.
Technical category - III;
The width of the roadway is 7 m;
The width of the roadbed is 12 m;
Estimated traffic intensity - 3,000 vehicles per day;
Estimated speed - 100 km/h;
Length - 2,165 km;
Number of traffic lanes: two;
Coating type: advanced lightweight.
It connects the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Amur Region, the Khabarovsk Territory and the Jewish Autonomous Region.
Along the route there are approaches to the city of Blagoveshchensk and the port of Vanino.
The peculiarity of the new route is that it took a very long time to build and while the new sections leave no complaints, sections of which have already been deformed by trucks for several years. For example, in the Londoko area (1840 - 1922 km of the M58 highway), the road surface has subsided, and driving resembles rocking on sea waves. The speed on this section is no more than 60 km/h. And in the Shimansk area, a small layer of asphalt was broken by heavy vehicles.
The completion of the route was officially announced in September 2010. To commemorate the completion of the construction of the highway in Khabarovsk, on September 24, 2010, a memorial sign “Zero kilometer of the Chita-Khabarovsk Federal Highway” was installed on Lenin Square.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting on the issue of developing the Chita-Khabarovsk highway, at which he demanded that the Amur highway be equipped with traffic police posts within a year and promised to consider increasing the staff of traffic police officers servicing the highway.
Route
Start 
0 km Chita
294 km Chernyshevsk
586 km Mogocha
753 km Erofey Pavlovich
919 km Skovorodino
1477 km Belogorsk
1852 km Birakan
1957 km Birobidzhan
2165 km Khabarovsk