R504 (Russia)
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| R504 Kolyma | ||
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| Overall length: | 2032 km | |
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 Sakha Republic (Yakutia) Magadan Oblast
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| R504 in Russia's trunk road network | ||
The R504 Kolyma is a trunk road of federal importance in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the Magadan Oblast in Russia . It leads from Nizhny Bestjach near Jakutsk in an easterly direction through the Verkhoyansk Mountains to Magadan on the Pacific coast . The street is named after the Kolyma River , which it crosses at Debin . It used to be called the Street of Bones or the Street of Death , as many of the Gulag prisoners who were deployed were killed during its construction .
history
In connection with the development of mining in Yakutia in the 1920s, the construction of a regional road network began. In November 1931 the state-owned construction company Dalstroi was founded, whose task it was to create a road from Magadan to Ust-Nera with a branch to Yakutsk. Inmates from the Soviet penal camps in the region were used as workers. In the summer of 1932 the first 120 km were released. The remaining 1,000 kilometers to Ust-Nera were completed by 1953. At the end of 1941 work began on the Chandyga route to Yakutsk, although there is still only a ferry connection between Nizhny Bestjach and Yakutsk via the Lena .
In the 1990s, the road was formally upgraded to the main thoroughfare and the M56 from Newer in the Amur region to Nizhny Bestjach (now the A360 ) was connected. At first it was only passable for long stretches with off-road vehicles or in winter, as it was only partially paved and most of the bridges over the larger rivers were missing. In 2010 the street was given its own number R504 again.
The new route between kilometer 730 (Kjubjume) and kilometer 1087 (Kadyktschan) has been completed since 2011. The route is a little different than the old route, but the condition of the road is very good. Work is also continuing on other sections of the R504.
course
- Yakutsk
- 0 km - Nizhny Bestjach, end of the A360 Lena (formerly M56)
- 58 km - Tjungulju
- 160 km - Churaptscha
- 239 km - Ytyk-Kjujol
- 409 km - Chandyga
- 482 km - Tjoply Klyuch
- 570 km - Raswilka
- 730 km - Kjubjume (at Oimjakon )
- 890 km - Ust-Nera
- 975 km - Burustach
- 1020 km - Artyk
- 1096 km - Osjornoe
- 1042 km - Ust-Khaktschan
- 1087 km - Kadyktschan
- 1133 km - Bolshevik
- 1168 km - Sussuman
- 1273 km - Jagodnoye
- 1349 km - Debin
- 1372 km - spur buoy
- 1407 km - Orotukan
- 1466 km - Strelka
- 1527 km - Myakit
- 1600 km - Atka
- 1658 km - Jablonewy
- 1719 km - Palatka
- 1777 km - Sokol
- 1826 km - Magadan
The Kolyma race in the film
The Kolyma race is the subject of an episode of the British documentary series Long Way Round from 2004. In the episode entitled Road of Bones, protagonists Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman tackle the route on motorbikes in summer, due to the high water levels the rivers can only succeed by loading them onto off-road trucks.
Polish director Stanisław Mucha shot the documentary Kolyma - Street of Bones in 2016/17 . The portrait of the street, its past and the people living there today came into cinemas in 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ To the list of trunk roads for public transport of federal importance. Order No. 928 of the Government of the Russian Federation of November 17, 2010 (Russian, online )
- ↑ Thomas Klein: In Search of a Swing: An Interview with the Documentarist Stanislaw Mucha on "Kolyma" , Filmdienst , accessed on September 23, 2018
