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=== West toward [[Cheboksary]], [[Nizhny Novgorod]], [[Moscow]] (M7) {{European Route Number|22}} ===
 
=== West toward [[Cheboksary]], [[Nizhny Novgorod]], [[Moscow]] (M7) {{European Route Number|22}} ===
  
Take a commuter train to the stop ''Zajmišča'' (Займища). The train station is located right at the northern end of the bridge across the Volga, and this is highway M7. Hitch south over the river.
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From the station for local trains (пригододный вокзал), take an ''električka'' train to the stop ''Zajmišča'' (Займища). Walk back a hundred metres in the direction the train came from and walk up the stairs onto the bridge. This is the M7, where you can stop a southbound car. The cars are going somewhat fast, but they have an enormous amount of room to stop.  
  
 
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Revision as of 14:18, 5 October 2011

Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia.

There are federal highway connections to Moscow and Ufa (E22), Orenburg (R-239), Ul'yanovsk (R-241) and Igra (R-242). There are also R-175 federal highway and «Northern Europe — Western China» (in construction) route near the city.

Hitching out

West toward Cheboksary, Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow (M7) E 22

From the station for local trains (пригододный вокзал), take an električka train to the stop Zajmišča (Займища). Walk back a hundred metres in the direction the train came from and walk up the stairs onto the bridge. This is the M7, where you can stop a southbound car. The cars are going somewhat fast, but they have an enormous amount of room to stop.

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