A155 (Russia)
The A155 ( Russian А155 ) is a trunk road of federal importance in the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic of the Russian Federation .
course
The A155 is part of the historic Sukhum military road , which connects the Russian North Caucasus with the Abkhazian capital Sukhumi . On Russian territory it leads from the republic capital Cherkessk up the river Kuban in a southerly direction to the tourist centers Teberda and Dombai not far from the main ridge of the Greater Caucasus . The road is 125 km long.
The 65 km long section from Kotschubejewskoje near Nevinnomyssk in the Stavropol region on the R217 Kawkas (formerly M29 ) via Erken-Shachar to Cherkessk has been a branch of the R217 since 2010 as a connection to a capital of a federal entity.
- 0 km - Cherkessk
- 13 km - Ust-Jeguta
- 40 km - Sary-Tjus , junction of the (former) R256 in the direction of Zelenchukskaya , on to Maikop
- 55 km - Karachayevsk , junction of the A157 to Pyatigorsk
- 100 km - Teberda
- 116 km - junction to Severny Prijut and the Kluchor Pass (dirt road to Abkhazia )
- 125 km - Dombai
Expansion plans
In July 2010, the Russian government announced that it would work with the government of the Republic of Abkhazia, which has broken away from Georgia, to create a new road link along the old military road from Cherkessk to the Abkhazian capital Sukhumi. The A 155 is to be connected to the existing road on the Abkhaz side through the Kodori Valley . So far there has only been an unpaved connection between the two roads over the Kluchorski Pass at an altitude of 2781 m.
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- ↑ RIA Novosti : РФ готова поддержать проект строительства дороги Черкесск-Сухуми (July 6, 2010)
