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. In the Asian Highway Network, the route is known as AH6. It stretches over 11,000 kilometres (6,800 miles) from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok. The road is the second-longest national highway in the world after Australia's Highway 1.
The highway became fully paved on 12 August 2015.[1]
- ^ "Последний разрыв" [The last break]. irk.ru (in Russian). 18 August 2015.