M52 highway (Russia)

M52 Federal Highway M52
Федеральная автомобильная дорога M52
Chuya Highway Чуйский тракт
Route information
Length:	953 km (592 mi)
Major junctions
North end:	Novosibirsk
South end:	Mongolian border
Highway system
Russian Federal Highways

The Russian route M52, also known as Chuya Highway or Chuysky Trakt (Чуйский тракт), is a trunk road in Novosibirsk Oblast, Altai Krai and Altai Republic of Russia. Its length is 953 kilometres. The width is 7 metres.

The highway, constructed in the early 1930s by gulag inmates, extends from Novosibirsk to Russia's border with Mongolia, passing through Berdsk, Novoaltaysk, Biysk, but bypassing Barnaul and Gorno-Altaysk.

Between Novosibirsk and Biysk the road follows the right bank of the Ob River, then traverses a steppe region and the Altay Mountains, where it continues through the altitudes of up to 2000 metres.

The Russian route M52 in the Altay.