European route E50 is an A-type eastâÂÂwest connection across the European continent. It connects the key naval port of Brest in France with Makhachkala, on the Caspian Sea in Dagestan, Russia.
History
Since 2014, parts of the road in eastern Ukraine have been under the control of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic. Since April 2021, M12 and M04 Stryi â Kropyvnytskyi â Debaltseve were combined into M30. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia took direct control of the areas in Donbas.
Outlook
Half the route comprises highways and the other half provincial roads. The route runs fully across the European continent. It is one of the longest E-roads on the continent.
Route
- : Brest () - Gouesnou
- : Gouesnou - Saint-Brieuc - Tramain () - Rennes
- : Rennes ()
- : Rennes () - La Gravelle
- : La Gravelle - Laval - Le Mans ()
- : Le Mans ( ) - Ablis
- : Ablis () - Massy ( )
- : Massy ( ) - Paris ()
- Boulevard Périphérique: Paris ( )
- : Paris () - Reims ( ) - Châlons-en-Champagne () - Metz ( ) - Freyming-Merlebach ()
- : Freyming-Merlebach () - Forbach
- Saarbrücken () - Mannheim () - Heilbronn () - Feuchtwangen () - Nürnberg () - Waidhaus
- : Rozvadov - PlzeÃ
 () - Prague ()
- : Prague ( )
- : Prague (Start of Concurrency with ) - Humpolec () - Jihlava (End of Concurrency with ) - Brno ( , End of Concurrency with )
- : Brno () - Starý Hrozenkov
- : Drietoma - TrenÃÂÃÂn (, Start of Concurrency with )
- : TrenÃÂÃÂn ( ) - Ã
½ilina ()
- : Ã
½ilina
- : Ã
½ilina (End of Concurrency with ) - Martin
- : Martin
- : Martin - RuÃ
¾omberok ()
- : RuÃ
¾omberok - PreÃ
¡ov - Bidovce
- : Bidovce ( ) - VyÃ
¡né Nemecké
- : Uzhhorod border - Uzhhorod ()
- : Uzhhorod () - Mukachevo ( , End of Concurrency with ) - Stryi ()
- : Stryi () - Ternopil () - Khmelnytskyi - Vinnytsia () - Uman () - Kropyvnytskyi ()
- : Kropyvnytskyi () - Oleksandriia () - Dnipro () - Donetsk - Debaltseve ()
- : Debaltseve () - Dovzhansky
- : border with Ukraine - Novoshakhtinsk (Start of concurrency with)
- : Novoshakhtinsk - Rostov-on-Don () - Pavlovskaya (End of concurrency with )
- : Pavlovskaya () - Armavir - Mineralnye Vody () - Beslan () - Makhachkala ()
- Major towns along the R217 highway (Russia) include Kropotkin, Nevinnomyssk, Mineralnye Vody, Pyatigorsk, Nalchik, Beslan, Grozny, Gudermes, Khasavyurt, Makhachkala, and Derbent on the Caspian Sea. After skirting the Greater Caucasus, the route continues to Baku.
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