Key facts
- Length
- 108.9 km (67.7 mi)
- Existed
- 1961–present
- Country
- Russia
- Major cities
- Moscow
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- limited-access road
- Part of
- AH6
- Country
- Russia
- Located in
- Moscow
- Material used
- rock asphalt
- Image
- MKAD in 1998.jpg
- Length
- 108.9
- Significant event
- architectural reconstruction
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- Commons category
- MKAD (Moscow)
- short name
- МКАД
- date of official opening
- 1962-11-05
- inception
- 1960-11-22
- different from
- MKAD
- speed limit
- 60
- has facility
- charging station
- throughput
- 9000
- number of lanes
- 6
- prohibits
- truck
- road number
- МКАД
- unveiled by
- Yury Luzhkov
- capital cost
- 24000000000
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Encyclopedic overview
The Moscow Automobile Ring Road (Russian: Московская кольцевая автомобильная дорога, romanized: Moskovskaya koltsevaya avtomobilnaya doroga), or MKAD (Russian: МКАД), is a ring road running predominantly on the city border of Moscow, with a length of 108.9 km (67.7 mi) and 35 exits (including ten interchanges). Completed in 1962, the road has a speed limit of 100 km/h.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Moscow Ring Road” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.