It just so happened that the M-4 Don highway is considered the main resort artery of the country. From the road to the sea, especially the paid one, everyone expects exclusively positive emotions, because we go on vacation to good mood. But can the track justify our hopes?

The state company Avtodor, which is engaged in the reconstruction and maintenance of the M4 highway, according to its press service, is doing everything possible and even beyond to make the path to holiday delights as easy as possible. However, traveling by car to the Crimea, Sochi, Anapa, Gelendzhik or Novorossiysk we cannot call easy and cloudless. Construction is far from over. It will not be quiet here - they promise repairs, and detours, and traffic jams ...

• The Losevo-Pavlovsk traffic jam remains the most sinister place on the M4. The construction of the bypass is well underway and ahead of schedule, but there are still challenges this summer. The most hardened travelers are advised to leave in such a way that the Losevo - Pavlovsk section passes late in the evening or at night when traffic is low.It also makes sense to use detours, their routes can be found on the Internet. At night, it is advised to cross Rostov-on-Don, the city bypass will still be built for some time, and there are a lot of traffic jams in the city in summer.

Viewed from the side, the reconstruction of the route is proceeding slowly. However, every year more and more new paid (read reconstructed) sections are introduced.

• For example, since April 29, the toll regime has been introduced in the Krasnodar Territory on the section of the M-4 Don highway from 1195 to 1319 km. When paying in cash or with a bank card, the fare for a passenger car will cost 200 rubles during the day and 120 at night. When using a transponder, you can save 20%. An open toll system will be organized on the specified section of the route. Motorists will pay once, regardless of distance. The toll collection point is located at km 1223 of the highway.

By the way, with regard to tariffs, Avtodor has traditionally announced a seasonal increase in fares from 21 km to 1319 km of the highway. Since April 15, the tariff has been increased by 21.6%. tallerThe event is traditional and will last until October 13. Only owners of transponders will be able to save. For them, travel from 21 to 93 kilometers, from 93 to 211, from 492 to 517 km andfrom 1091 to 1119 kilometers will remain at the same level. The increase bent and other routes subordinated to "Avtodor".

• So, travel on paid sections will not change (130 rubles), but on Fridays, weekends and holidays will rise to 150 rubles. when paying in cash.
• For payment from 58 to 97 km, it remained the same, and in the section from 208 to 543 kilometers it increased by 16.6%, to 770 rubles. for passenger cars during the day when paying in cash or by card. In Avtodor, seasonal tariffs are explained by the growth of traffic, and hence the additional costs of maintaining the road.

At the third stage of the Aksai Bypass on the M4 Don highway in the Rostov region this year, traffic will not be restricted on the route reconstruction section from 1024 to 1036 km.

As part of the third stage of construction, it is planned to reconstruct a section of the highway with the expansion of the roadbed in the direction of Moscow, the construction of a bridge across the Tuzlov River and an overpass over the road to the village of Grushevskaya. Work on the highway will be carried out parallel to the existing lanes and will not affect traffic, which is especially important during the holiday season. Work on this section will be completed by September 30, 2021, following the results of the reconstruction, the road will be brought to the parameters of category IA with sixtraffic lanes. The length of the reconstruction section is 12.3 km.

The construction of the entire Aksai Bypass is divided into five stages. The first three are the reconstruction of existing sections of the road: from km 1079 to 1081 (stage 1), from km 1072 to 1091 (stage 2), from km 1024 to km 1036 (stage 3). New construction is envisaged by the fifthstage on the section of the motorway from 1036 to 1072 km, and the fourth stage is to prepare the territory for the construction of the Bypass.

You can save a lot of money when going on a trip along the M4 Don highway by calculating your route in such a way that maximum amount to pass paid sections at night. If during the day the passage of all existing paid sections in a car costs 1380 rubles when paying in cash or by card, then at night the same route willno at 780 rubles. When paying with a transponder, in turn, you will have to spend 1096 rubles during the day and 624 at night. However, there is one "but". The 20% discount for T-Pass transponder holders is no longer valid if your transponder belongs to another issuer. In other words, if you purchased it on a different track.

the M4 trolleybus line operates every day. Regular opening hours: 0:08 - 23:58

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M4 (Routes "Magistral")

The first stop for the M4 trolleybus is K/T Udarnik and the last stop is Metro Ozernaya. M4 (Direction: K/T "Udarnik"‎→Metro "Ozernaya") is operational during every day.

Additional information: the M4 route has a total of 42 stations and the duration of the trip is approximately 75 minutes.

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The M4 - Don highway has a length of 1543.7 km and connects Moscow and Novorossiysk. Initially, the road had only two traffic lanes, while the lanes were not separated by protective fences, which led to a large number of accidents, most often fatal. As a result, the track was called the road of death.

The construction time of the route is not exactly fixed, because. it was built from existing sections, but the date 1957-1961 is more common than others, and it is taken as the time the road was created.

In 1984, the construction of a traffic-free understudy road in the Moscow region began. By 1990, two launch complexes were built and put into operation in the Domodedovo district of the Moscow region with a length of 18.4 km.

After the collapse of the USSR in December 1991, the highway was included by the Russian government in the list of federal roads, receiving a modern name. At the same time, it was lengthened by almost 500 km by joining to it a section of the former Rostov-on-Don-Beslan-Baku route from Rostov-on-Don to Pavlovskaya, the Pavlovskaya-Krasnodar, Krasnodar-Dzhubga roads, as well as a section of the former Sukhumi highway from Novorossiysk to Dzhubga.

In 1997, the active construction of an alternate road in the Moscow Region was resumed, which made it possible in 1999 to put into operation 72 km of the road with 4-8 lanes, in 2000 another 63 km in the Moscow and Tula regions. As a result, today's Don Highway is a continuation of Lipetskaya Street in Moscow. The former route, the old Kashirskoye Highway, has lost its former significance and serves mainly for regional transportation, as well as for avoiding traffic jams that appear on the Don Highway due to repairs or accidents.

In the 2000s, the reconstruction of the road continued along its entire length, as a result of which most of the road received separate carriageways and multi-level intersections with other roads, and the length of sections with artificial lighting increased. Bypasses of Bogoroditsk (2009), Upper Mamon (including a new bridge across the Don, 2009), Boguchar (2009), Efremov (2010), Yelets (including a new bridge across the Fast Sosna, 2011), Yarkin (2011), Tarasovsky (2013) were built ) and other settlements, the bypass of Voronezh was reconstructed (2013).

In the summer, the road is often congested due to the large number of vacationers who travel by car with their families from Moscow and other large cities to the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus, to other areas of the Rostov Region, Stavropol and Krasnodar Territories, Crimea, which are favorable for recreation. for trucks exporting agricultural products from the southern regions of Russia to Moscow, St. Petersburg and other regions for sale. Significant traffic jams occur during repair work in the Voronezh and Rostov regions, as well as on a two-lane section of the road in the south of the Voronezh region.

Traffic jams also periodically occur in front of the toll booths on the toll section in the Moscow Region (km 48-71).

V winter time during bad weather, there may be problems with driving along the mountainous section of the road in the Krasnodar Territory. But sometimes, due to snowfalls and ice, problems also arise on flat areas: for example, at the end of 2009, traffic was paralyzed for several days on an unreconstructed section of the road in the Rostov region due to heavy snowfalls.

The main congestion-forming places are narrowings from 2 + 2 to 1 + 1, for example, at the beginning of the narrow section of Losevo - Pavlovsk. Also, a traffic jam occurs around the village of Loseva, where the 1 + 1 road is slowed down by a “zebra” in the center of the village. There are similar places in the area of ​​Rostov-on-Don (narrow bridges and ramps near the Mega shopping center and the city of Bataysk) and in the area of ​​Krasnodar (narrow bridge and ramp at the junction of the Rostov highway).

In general, the M4 highway today has the largest number of toll booths and their number will increase in the near future.

When leaving Moscow towards Novorossiysk, do not forget to stop by our service station. service and check the machine. Confidence in the health of your car is a guarantee of the health of you and your passengers.

Due to the high traffic of the route in the summer, we ask you to sign up in advance for those. inspection and repair.

Every time I return from traveling to the sea, I write about what the road was like, what condition the track is in at the moment, what has changed since last time. I pay attention to gas stations, places of rest and snacks, and hotels for overnight stays. I will not change this tradition even now. Before turning to the story about the rest, I will show how we drove along the M4 "Don" highway to the sea, I will briefly talk about the most important thing.
Our trip south by car took place in June 2016. All the way, I collected checks from gas stations, toll booths in paid sections, cafes and more. How much does it cost, the time of payment ... Such things are quickly forgotten. You will not have time to reach your destination, you have already forgotten everything. After all, the main thing in a trip is not numbers, but emotions.
In this article I'll show you M4 highway, I will do accents on paid sections (number, fare, location), I will tell you where we refueled, where we ate, where we spent the night. I get asked about this all the time. So it's relevant.

I will finish the article with a story about hotels on the Don highway, where you can stay for the night on the way south. It is based on the statistics of the most popular hotels among travelers, which I have as a partner of Booking.
Here is such a plan. So let's go!
First I will show our way in photos. So I will introduce you to the track and its condition. You will know what to expect. :)

Moscow. MKAD

The M4 highway appears on the signs

Repositioning and turning

M4 is not a road, but a runway :)

In the Tula region, M4 is somewhat ornate ...

Tula gingerbread is sold along the road in the Tula region

Toll roads are good because they have emergency commissioners, assistants to motorists.

On the paid sections there are electronic boards for announcements (including with the phone of the emergency commissioner, information about speed and air temperature).

Highway M4 in the Lipetsk region

Stele "Lipetsk region"

We are entering the Voronezh region

The weather turned bad, it started to rain...

and then it poured like a bucket ...

Toll collection point near Voronezh

We drive around Voronezh

M4 is not finished yet. Parts are being refurbished...

Another area under renovation

Cretaceous mountains of the Voronezh region

820th kilometer of the Don highway

One of the hotels on the M4 highway - "Bike" in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky

Hotel "Pharaoh" at 937 km.

We pass the hotel "Meridian-South" in Krasny Kolos (1040 km. M4)

Motel "Eurasia" in Aksai

Rostov-on-Don

Entrance to the Krasnodar Territory

Hospitable Kuban greeted us with rain and dullness

Chapel, monument, museum in honor of the Kushchevskaya attack (events of August 2, 1942)

At this turn, we turned off the "Don" highway and "through the villages" went to Anapa.

Toll road sections on the M4 highway

I heard on TV that in August 2016 the next, eighth in a row, paid section of the M4 highway was opened. Judging by our experience, as of June 2016 there were already nine. In my "piggy bank" 7 checks + 1 check we forgot to take + 1 section we drove on a free road.
Yes, Kostya decided to be a researcher and find out what kind of free bypass roads are. Alternative, as they are called. I was categorically against it - there are a thousand kilometers ahead, I have no time for experiments. As a result, we drove around only the first paid section from Moscow. The bypass is pretty good. Even though it's a double stripe, the fabric is fine.

The quality of the road on this bypass section is normal.

The next time we left the road at the sign "free travel", we immediately returned back - the normal road ended ... Kostya did not want to experiment anymore, fortunately ...

Exit to the free road around Efremov

M4 toll sections

Moscow region.
1/ The first paid section we drove around: 21 - 93 km. Cost: 50 rubles. at night (on the way back)

Pointer to the free detour of the paid section

2/ 93 - 211 km. Put into action later than we were driving. We passed it without paying.

Toll booths before they open

Tula region.
4/ M4 "Don" detour of the city of Bogoroditsk. 225.6 - 260 km. Toll plaza at km 228. We left at 8:56. Fare: 60 rubles.

5/ M4 bypass of the city of Efremov. 287.8 - 323.3 km. Collection point at 322 km. We left at 10:29. Cost: 60 rubles.

Lipetsk region.
6/ M4 bypass of the city of Yelets. 330.8 - 414.7 km. Collection point at 339 km. We left at 10:43. Cost: 120 rubles.

7/ M4 bypass of the city of Zadonsk and with. Khlevnoe. 414 - 464 km. The toll collection point at km 416 was passed at 11.40. Cost: 80 rubles.

Voronezh region.
8/ M4 detour of Voronezh. 492.7 - 517 km. Toll booth at km 515. We left at 12:54. Cost: 35 rubles.

9/ M4 PVP-545 km. 544 - 588.7 km. 545 km passed at 13.18. Cost: 70 rubles.

10/ M4 PVP-620 km. 588.7 - 633 km. 620 km. We left at 14.12. Cost: 60 rubles.

Total: at the moment there are 10 paid sections on the M4. We got through eight. Paid about 550 rubles.

Gas station on M4

Back in Moscow We refueled at a Shell gas station (41 liters for 1,680 rubles). Gasoline was bad. The car was constantly stalling. There was one more time in the whole 3.5 week trip when we refueled on the Shell, and the problem was the same. Here's your favorite gas station...
The rest of the time on the way south we refueled at Lukoil, and everything was fine:

• Gas station "Lukoil" at 720 km. in the Voronezh region 38 y.o. - 1,437 rubles.
• Gas station "Lukoil" in Art. Kushchevskaya 28 l. - 1,119 rubles.

New complex Lukoil in Kushchevskaya (1145 km, on the right) consists of a hotel, a shopping center, a restaurant, a maintenance station and a gas station.

In total, on the way to the south, we refueled for 4,240 rubles. (round up). This gasoline was enough for us to get from Moscow to Anapa, drive there for a week and then get to Gelendzhik.
In Gelendzhik, they refueled again at Lukoil (43 liters for 1,705 rubles). And the next time was already in Sochi in a week ...

Toilets on M4

Along the highway, there are often brick toilets of the "hole in the floor" type - and free-standing ones, most often near public transport stops and at large recreation areas.

The toilets are mostly dirty. In order not to drag all this into the car later, I recommend choosing gas stations for sanitary stops. In any case, the toilets there are much cleaner, and you can wash your hands and drink coffee in a cafe.
Coming from Moscow, stop somewhere at a large gas station in the Moscow region ("Shell", "Gazpromneft", etc.). In the Tula region, gas stations with toilets are a huge problem, in the Lipetsk region, in general, too. Spill the Moscow region, then wait for the Voronezh. By the way, the same goes for the return trip. Do not count on the Tula and Lipetsk regions! On the woods too. This is not that track.

Where to eat on M4

We have a tradition - we always stop at the new generation Lukoil gas station in the Voronezh region at 720 km. (There are gas stations on both sides of the road!). These are not just gas stations - these are modern complexes with cafes, toilets, a shop, children's playgrounds (both indoors and outdoors) and so on.

Cafe "Meridian"

Hotels on the M4 highway

There are enough hotels on the M4 highway. These are simple motels for truckers, and more or less decent hotels. What can you advise to those who have not taken care of where to spend the night on the way to the sea? It is best to avoid cheap motels right on the road. Choose hotels at least a little away from the highway and have a closed area. An example of such a hotel remote from the territory is the "Wind Rose" (practically on the border of the Voronezh and Rostov regions).

If you are not an extreme person by nature, book a hotel room in advance. Don't know the time when you will arrive at the hotel? It doesn't matter at all. You know the day. Check-in - at any time of the day.

Analyzed booking statistics by city and hotel. Most often, the following cities and towns are chosen for a night stop on the way south (M4 highway):

• Voronezh,
• Millerovo,
• Mines,
• red ear,
• Kovalevka,
• Aksay,
• Rostov-on-Don,
• Mayakovsky,
• Kushchevskaya.

The choice depends on where people started from. It is more convenient for Muscovites to stay in Rostov and in its neighborhood. Petersburgers - in Voronezh. Tulyaks - in the Krasnodar Territory. There are, of course, personal preferences, but everything is individual.
Now the most popular hotels in May, June and July 2016. The list is very different from what I would recommend to you. I suspect that the main part of the hotels is popular due to economic preferences (the same "Alpha" in Rostov) and the smaller one - due to comfort and coziness (for example, the "Rodina" hotel in Mayakovsky). What you choose - decide for yourself.

We always stop for the night. We don't risk, we don't stress. Riding without rest is not about us. It’s not about us to go into the unknown, look for where to stay for the night along the way. We spend the night in pre-booked and checked hotels, where a quiet rest and good food are guaranteed.
We never force ourselves. We get up at a comfortable time, we go at a calm speed. And we get pleasure from the process of driving. Yes, it's a long way. About 1,600 kilometers. But on a highway like the M4, it's not scary at all. Great track, God forbid that there are more of these!