All travel options from Rostov to Crimea via the Crimean bridge

The Crimean Peninsula already receives tourists who travel across the Crimean Bridge. Especially for guests traveling to Crimea via Rostov-on-Don, a detailed route map is offered.

After the opening of the Crimean Bridge, residents of the “mainland” rushed to relax on the peninsula with the desire to ride along the longest transport crossing in Europe. The Crimean Bridge has become not just a transport crossing across the Kerch Strait, but a real landmark of both banks. Many travelers come just to see this symbol of the reunification of Crimea with Russia.

How to get from Rostov to Crimea?

The scheme suggests 3 travel options:

Through Timashevsk and Slavyansk-on-Kuban
Via Krasnodar
a detour through Goryachiy Klyuch, Gelendzhik and Novorossiysk.

See the diagram below for more details:

Motorists are offered 6 main routes to the Crimean Bridge across the Krasnodar Territory:
Along the M-4 Don highway you can get to Novorossiysk, and then take the A-290 Novorossiysk - Kerch highway to get to the Crimean Bridge. This is the longest route - its length is 578 km.

The shortest route will be the following route: take M-4 to the village of Kushchevskaya (1145th km), turn to the village of Kanevskaya, and then follow through the city of Timashevsk, the village of Telegin, the village of Bely and exit onto the A-290 highway.

The length of the remaining routes varies from 452 km to 465 km. One of them duplicates the shortest route, only you will need to exit the M-4 Don highway not at the 1145th km, but at the 1159th km in the area of the village of Kislyakovskaya. Another route runs through Krasnodar. Having reached the city along the M-4, you need to use the eastern and southern bypasses of Krasnodar and get onto the A-146 “Krasnodar - Verkhnebakansky” highway, along which you can already get to the A-290 highway, which will lead to the Crimean Bridge.
Before reaching Krasnodar, you can turn off the M-4 in the city of Korenovsk (1278th km of the Don highway), get to Timashevsk and then continue along the shortest route. You can get to the same road if you exit M-4 near the village of Pavlovskaya (1199th km).

How to get to Crimea without traffic jams?

The most popular travel option to Crimea bypassing Krasnodar is through Timashevsk. This will help you avoid traffic jams in Crimea.

Large-scale construction continues on the peninsula. Work is underway on the railway part of the Crimean Bridge. Every day the Tavrida highway takes on new lines and directions, which will make the path to the Crimean cities comfortable and fast.

How to get to Crimea bypassing Krasnodar?

The last option bypassing Krasnodar is the longest, but you can stop in the resort towns of the Krasnodar Territory - Gelendzhik, Novorossiysk, Anapa.

How much does it cost to travel across the Crimean Bridge?

Travel on the Crimean Bridge is expected to be free since the Crimean Bridge is not a private investment project. All funds are allocated from the Federal budget. That is why the cost of travel on the Crimean Bridge for all types of transport will be zero.

Passenger cars and passenger buses will be able to travel on road approaches to the Crimean Bridge without restrictions, and trucks weighing over 3.5 tons will so far be able to reach the Russian mainland from the peninsula and in the opposite direction only through a ferry crossing.