Paul Goble
Staunton, July 22 – There are many terrible roads in the Russian Federation, but a strong candidate for the worst of all is one between the city of Kedrovy and Tomsk, a road that is so bad that it takes up to 36 hours to go the 143 kilometers separating the one place for the other – at an average speed of just four km/hour.
Residents have complained about the road for years if not decades, but it didn’t come to all-Russian attention until it was reported that the authorities had to transport the body of a soldier who lost his life fighting in Ukraine back to Kedrovy on the back of an all-terrain vehicle (okno.group/telo-umershego-vezli-na-kryshe-vezdehoda-gde-hudshaya-doroga-v-rossii/).
That attracted the attention of Moscow officials, although there is no indication yet that they have done anything to transform what is little more than an unpaved track into a genuine road, even unpaved. As a result, residents will continue to flee lest they be left in what state highway policies have made a dying backwater.
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