The Kharkiv Ring Road () is a

ring road A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city or country. The most common purpose of a ring road is to assist in reducin ...

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

and

Kharkiv Oblast Kharkiv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Kharkivshchyna (), is an oblast (province) in eastern Ukraine. Kharkiv borders Luhansk Oblast to the east, Donetsk Oblast to the southeast, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to the southwest, Poltava Oblast to the w ...

, running mainly along the administrative border of the city. The length of the road is , the width of the carriageway in different sections is from .

Reconstruction

As part of Ukraine's preparations for the

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, it was planned to repair and modernize the ring road to comply with its I technical category of road quality. On 10 August 2010, its overhaul began, and on 12 November, the road was solemnly opened after reconstruction. The cost of the work amounted to 320 million hryvnia (about $40 million).

References

{{reflist Ring roads in Ukraine Roads in Kharkiv Oblast