The Moscow Small Ring Road (), designated as A107, is a

Russian federal highway Russian federal highways (; lit. ''highways of federal importance of the Russian Federation'') are the most important highways in Russia that are federal property. The following motorways are designated as federal.Moscow Oblast Moscow Oblast (, , informally known as , ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). With a population of 8,524,665 (Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census) living in an area of , it is one of the most densely populate ...

, passing through the cities of

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, Domodedovo,

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and

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. Part of the road also passes through

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(

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). The length of the road is .

History

Along with the Moscow Big Ring Road, the Moscow Small Ring Road was built in the 1950s and 1960s to meet the military transport needs of Moscow's

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. There is a widespread opinion that concrete blocks were built precisely from concrete slabs, which were supposedly laid on top of each other in several layers so that the canvas could withstand mobile missile systems. Concrete was poured along technological grips, each of which was 200–300 meters long. The width of the roadway was from 4 to 5 meters; the thickness of the concrete was no more than 25 centimeters, and in some places only 15 centimeters, but capable of withstanding the weight of multi-ton rocket tractors. Until 1990, the Moscow Small Ring Road was not marked on maps and in road atlases. Information about convenient roads eventually spread among the local population, and both rings became public roads, first de facto, and in the late 1980s de jure. Gradually, the concrete slabs were covered with asphalt, but in the popular consciousness, the rings remained “concrete”. In 2016, the construction of the Central Ring Road toll road began, especially through Malaya Betonka.

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