М5 (Russia)

Federal Highway М5
Federal Highway М5
Федеральная автомобильная дорога М5 (Russian)
Ural Highway
Route information
	Part of E 30
	Part of AH 6 AH 7
Length	1,879 km (1,168 mi)
Major junctions
North end	Moscow
South end	Chelyabinsk
Location
Country	Russia
Highway system
	Russian Federal Highways;

The Russian route M5 (also known as the Ural Highway) is a major trunk road running across a distance of 1879 km from Moscow to the Ural Mountains. It is part of the European route E30 and the Trans-Siberian Highway. The section from Yekaterinburg to Chelyabinsk is also part of AH7, and the section from Chelyabinsk to Moscow is also part of AH6.

The highway starts at the crossing of the Moscow Ring Road and Volgogradsky Prospekt and runs southeast through Lyubertsy, crossing the Oka River at Kolomna. The Ural Highway continues across nine regions of Russia, passing through a dangerous mountain stretch before terminating at Chelyabinsk. The road continues from Chelyabinsk further east to Omsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk as the Russian route R254.