E50 (Europe)

E 50
Route information
Length	5,100 km (3,200 mi)
Major junctions
West end	Brest, France
Major intersections	E 05 Paris E 15 Paris E 25 Metz E 35 (south of) Walldorf E 45 Nuremberg E 55 Prague E 65 Prague E 75 Trenčín E 85 Ternopil E 95 Uman E 105 Novomoskovsk E 40 Debaltseve E 115 Rostov-na-Donu
East end	E 119 Makhachkala, Russia
Location
Countries	France Germany Czech Republic Slovakia Ukraine Russia
Highway system
International E-road network A Class B Class

European route E 50 is an A-type east–west connection across the European continent. It connects the key naval port of Brest France with Makhachkala, on the Caspian Sea in the Russian republic Dagestan.

Outlook

Half the route is on highways and the other half is on provincial roads. The route is in estimation some 6,000 kilometers (3,700 mi) long and runs fully across the European continent.

E50 near Ternopil in Ukraine, looking east towards Khmelnytskyi and Uman.

On its way through Europe it crosses several major European routes, such as:

• E60 Brest–Vienna
• E5 Greenock-Algeciras
• E15 Inverness-Algeciras
• E45 Alta-Gela
• E75 Vardø-Pireas

It is one of the longest E roads on the continent.

Since 2014, parts of the road in eastern Ukraine have been under the control of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia took direct control of the areas in Donbas.

Route

• France
  • D 112: Brest ( E 60) - Gouesnou
  • N 12: Gouesnou - Saint-Brieuc - Tramain ( E 401) - Rennes
  • N 136: Rennes ( E 3)
  • N 157: Rennes ( E 3) - La Gravelle
  • A 81: La Gravelle - Laval - Le Mans ( E 501)
  • A 11: Le Mans ( E 501 E 502) - Ablis
  • A 10: Ablis ( E 5) - Massy ( E 5 E 15)
  • A 6b: Massy ( E 5 E 15) - Paris ( E 15)
  • Boulevard Périphérique: Paris ( E 15 E 54)
  • A 4: Paris ( E 15) - Reims ( E 17 E 46 E 420) - Châlons-en-Champagne ( E 17) - Metz ( E 21 E 23 E 25) - Freyming-Merlebach ( E 25)
  • A 320: Freyming-Merlebach ( E 25) - Forbach
• Germany
  • A 6 Saarbrücken ( E 29 E 422) - Mannheim ( E 31 E 35) - Heilbronn ( E 41) - Feuchtwangen ( E 43) - Nürnberg ( E 45 E 51 E 56) - Waidhaus
• Czech Republic
  • D 5: Rozvadov - Plzeň ( E 49 E 53) - Prague ( E 48 E 55)
  • D 0: Prague ( E 48 E 55 E 59 E 65)
  • D 1: Prague (Start of Concurrency with E 59 E 65) - Humpolec ( E 551) - Jihlava (End of Concurrency with E 59) - Brno ( E 461 E 462, End of Concurrency with E 65)
  • I/50: Brno ( E 462) - Starý Hrozenkov
• Slovakia
  • I/9: Drietoma - Trenčín ( E572, Start of Concurrency with E75 )
  • D1: Trenčín ( E75 E572) - Žilina ( E442)
  • D3: Žilina
  • I/18: Žilina (End of Concurrency with E75) - Martin
  • D1: Martin
  • I/18: Martin - Ružomberok ( E77)
  • D1: Ružomberok - Prešov
  • I/18: Prešov ( E371)
  • I/20: Prešov
  • D1: Prešov - Bidovce
  • I/19: Bidovce ( E58 E71 E571) - Vyšné Nemecké
• Ukraine (Note: since April 2021, M12 and M04 Stryi – Kropyvnytskyi – Debaltseve were combined into M30)
  • M 08: Uzhhorod border - Uzhhorod ( E 573)
  • M 06: Uzhhorod ( E 573) - Mukachevo ( E 81 E 471, End of Concurrency with E 58) - Stryi ( E 471)
  • M 12: Stryi ( E 471) - Ternopil ( E 85) - Khmelnytskyi - Vinnytsia ( E 583) - Uman ( E 95) - Kropyvnytskyi ( E 584)
  • M 04: Kropyvnytskyi ( E 584) - Oleksandriia ( E 584) - Dnipro ( E 105) - Donetsk - Debaltseve ( E 40)
  • M 03: Debaltseve ( E 40) - Dovzhansky
• Russia
  • A 270: border with Ukraine - Novoshakhtinsk (Start of concurrency with E 115)
  • M 4: Novoshakhtinsk - Rostov-on-Don ( E 58) - Pavlovskaya (End of concurrency with E 115)
  • R 217: Pavlovskaya ( E 115) - Armavir - Mineralnye Vody ( E 117) - Beslan ( E 117) - Makhachkala ( E 119)
  • Major towns along the R217 highway (Russia) include Kropotkin, Nevinnomyssk, Mineralnye Vody, Pyatigorsk, Nalchik, Beslan, Grozny, Gudermes, Khasavyurt, Makhachkala, and Derbent on the Caspian Sea. After skirting the Greater Caucasus, the route continues to Baku.

External links

• UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)

Geographic data related to E50 (Europe) at OpenStreetMap