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Originally Posted by PanEuropean
Hello Ryuhei:
Basically, there are no roads at all north of Magadan. The roads that do exist between Magadan and areas to the south are very primitive, because there is not a lot of human population there. The road network doesn't really begin until you get south of Magadan to Chumikan, which is at the western-most tip of the Sea of Okhotsk.
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I'm not sure where you're getting this information from...
The Kolyma Highway, which connects Magadan to the outside world, runs north out of the city for a couple of hundred kilometres, then heads east. Although it is not paved, it is an excellent graded road. The asphalt roadhead is Nizhny Bestyakh on the Lena river. There are winter roads heading north up the Kolyma river, but as you approach the Arctic they become pretty tough.
South of Magadan is sea, no roads.
There are roads along the coastline out of Magadan but they do not go very far. There is a winter road heading east to the border of Chukotka. There is nothing west along the coastline.
Chumikan is not connected to the Russian road network, certainly not by anything like a permanent road. I don't think there is even a winter road.
EO
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