R216 (Russia)

Road of federal importance
Р216
R216
Basic data
Overall length:	599 km
Federation subjects :	Astrakhan Oblast Republic of Kalmykia, Stavropol Region
Development condition:	two lanes, asphalt

The R216 ( Cyrillic. Р216 ) is a highway federal significance in Russia . In the foothills of the Caucasus , it connects Astrakhan , the administrative center of Astrakhan Oblast in the Volga Delta , via the Kalmyk capital Elista over a total of almost 600 kilometers with Stavropol , the center of the Stavropol region .

After leaving the lowland with many lakes on the western edge of the Volga Delta, the road initially leads through a predominantly semi-desert landscape, later, especially south of the Manytn lowlands , through intensively agriculturally used steppe area . The road is paved and mostly two-lane.

The street was given the number R216 in 2010. Previously it was numbered A154.

course

Astrakhan Oblast

000 km - Astrakhan , connection M6 towards Volgograd - Moscow

062 km - Lineinoje

072 km - junction towards Lagan (131 km)

Republic of Kalmykia

140 km - Chulchuta

169 km - Utta

227 km - Yashkul

318 km - Elista (southern bypass); Junction M6 (branch, formerly R221) towards Volgograd (301 km)

384 km - Prijutnoye

~ Western Manych (Proletarsk Reservoir, former Lake Manych-Gudilo, two arms)

Stavropol region

411 km - Divnoye

451 km - Ipatowo (northern bypass)

513 km - Swetlograd (western bypass)

529 km - Konstantinovskoye

554 km - Grachevka

599 km - Stavropol (southeast bypass)

The partially four-lane extension from Stavropol to the R217 near Nevinnomyssk over a good 50 kilometers was also part of the R216 in the past, but was assigned as a connecting route to the M29 in the 1990s, as the R217 was called until 2010 (alternatively until 2017).

history

During the Second World War, the German Wehrmacht advanced quickly along today's R216 in the summer of 1942, initially via Elista in the direction of Astrakhan. At the end of August, the German troops were stopped in front of the village of Chulchuta (then also called Chalchuta) a good 125 kilometers from the Astrakhan outskirts and the Red Army engaged them in positional battles that lasted until the end of November 1942 . This was, possibly apart from brief, smaller commando operations , the most easterly point that the German troops reached during the entire war. In 1975 a memorial was erected on the road west of Chulchuta to commemorate the 28th Soviet Army.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 )
2. ↑ Article ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. about the monument on the website of the South Russian Customs Authority, May 14, 2007 ( link no longer available ) 
3. ↑ Photo of the memorial