I drove the stretch from Budyonnovsk to Elista this year, very empty. Mostly good asphalt though the last stretch when over the border into Kalmykia gets a bit bad, nothing shocking. From memory no traffic cops at all. Just one checkpoint on the road from Yuzhno Sukhokumsk entering Stavropol Territory (i.e. east of Budyonnovsk), but a formal checkpost, not a patrol car.
I think camping here is fine, if it weren't for rapacious mosquitoes!
EO
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EurasiaOverland a memoir of one quarter of a million kilometres by road through all of the Former USSR, Western and Southern Asia.
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