Baikal Highway
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The Baikal Highway is a federal highway in Russia. Its official designation is federal highway M51, M53, M55 "Baikal" (Russian: Федеральная автомобильная дорога М51, М53, М55 «Байкал»). It part of the Trans-Siberian Highway and of the AH6 route of the Asian Highway Network. The Chelyabinsk-Omsk stretch is also included into the European route E30. It is named after the Russian Lake Baikal.
The highway consists of the following segments:
- M51: Chelyabinsk-Kurgan-Ishim-Omsk-Novosibirsk, 1528 km
- M53: Novosibirsk-(Tomsk-)Kemerovo-Krasnoyarsk-Irkutsk, 1860 km
- M55: Irkutsk-Ulan-Ude-Chita, 1113 km
