Trans-Siberian Highway
The Trans-Siberian Highway is the unofficial name for a network of federal highways that span the width of Russia from the Baltic Sea of the Atlantic Ocean to the Sea of Japan of the Pacific Ocean. In the Asian Highway Network, the route is known as AH6. It stretches over 11,000 kilometres (6,800 mi) from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok. The road disputes the title of the longest national highway in the world with the Trans-Canada Highway and Australia's Highway 1.
Route
The route, in places coinciding with European route E30 and passing through the country of Kazakhstan across a distance of about 190 kilometres (120 mi), consists of seven federal highways:
M10 Russia Highway: St. Petersburg-Moscow, 664 kilometres (413 mi)
M5 Ural Highway: Moscow-Chelyabinsk, 1,880 kilometres (1,170 mi)
Baikal Highway:
M51: Chelyabinsk-Novosibirsk, 1,528 kilometres (949 mi)