The Moscow Ring Road represents the approximate boundaries of Moscow. Of course, this is conditional, since in recent years the territory of the city has moved beyond the Moscow Ring Road with some of its districts. Currently
the length of the Moscow Ring Road reaches 108.9 km. This highway is a link for the main roads of the city: all the main radial routes of Moscow have an intersection with the ring road. From the city center, the Moscow Ring Road is located at a distance of 12-18 km in its various sections. Historically, kilometers on the Ring Road are counted from the intersection with the Entuziastov Highway in a clockwise direction.
History of the Moscow Ring Road
The idea of creating such a ring road arose in 1937, and its first section began to be built in 1939, but the war prevented all plans from being realized. I had to change the project and urgently build a simplified version of the road, adapted for the movement of military equipment and the redeployment of troops. In this first version, the length of the Moscow Ring Road was about 30 kilometers. After the war, they returned to the original project, and in 1956 the reconstruction of the road began. The first section - from Yaroslavl to Simferopol highway - was opened in 1960. This part of the Moscow Ring Road had a length of 48kilometers. And already in 1962, traffic was opened along the entire ring road. It had two lanes for traffic in one direction and the other, each
7 m wide. The construction of 33 road junctions, so far two-level, has become very important for normal traffic along the ring road. The first three-level interchange appeared only in 1983 at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road with the Simferopol highway. At the same time, the road surface on all sections of the ring highway was plain concrete. In the 1990s, it became obvious that the Moscow Ring Road was morally and physically obsolete. Reconstruction began, which included two stages. The first stage consisted in replacing the lighting and installing a barrier fence between oncoming streams. The second stage included widening the roadbed and thereby increasing the number of lanes to five.
MKAD today
Today, the Moscow Ring Road is a highway of a completely European level. Width - 10 lanes, road surface - asph alt concrete.
47 junctions have been built, of which Leningradskaya and Gorkovskaya are three-level, and Yaroslavskaya and Novorizhskaya are four-level. Taking into account the great length of the Moscow Ring Road, 49 overground pedestrian crossings and 4 underground ones were built. 76 overpasses and bridges were erected, 6 of them - over the Moscow River and the Moscow Canal. Currently, the Moscow Ring Road can no longer cope with the flow of cars. Traffic jams have become commonplace on the ring road. But to increase its throughputit is not enough just to increase the length of the Moscow Ring Road. The Moscow authorities have developed a new project - the fourth transport ring. This will make it possible to remake obsolete transport interchanges, build a lot of backups of the ring road, flyovers and tunnels. In total, after the creation of the fourth ring, the length of the Moscow Ring Road in km should almost double.
