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18 Dec 2018
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Originally Posted by maria41
Hi EO,
I plan to leave late May / early June 2016, from the UK and finish in Bishkek mid-September. We have booked with Sambor to pick up our bikes there and bring them back to the UK by truck.
So we have a good 3 1/2 months, but that will include exploring a bit more Kyrgyzstan and trying to get into Tajikistan and ride part of the Pamir.
From Arkhangelsk we will probably ride south by the M8, then take the bridge across from Ust-Vaga to Chamovo, then continue south and across the river to Kotlas.
Then ride East via Kuratovo to Perm then East North to Khanty Mansiysk, then Surgut to Nizhnevartovsk. Then we will come across a “wall”, i.e. the massive River Ob. We will take a Ferry to go all the way to Tomsk as there does not seem to be any road south from Nizhnevartovsk to Tomsk.
According to Google there are quite few alternatives avoiding Tobolsk, but whether these roads are doable in the summer remain to be seen:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Arkhangelsk+Oblast,+Russia/Nizhnevartovsk,+Khanty-Mansi+Autonomous+Okrug,+Russia/@59.2984121,62.0907775,6z/data=!4m16!4m15!1m5!1m1!1s0x441a6049e61899b1:0x102 a3a583f195e0!2m2!1d42.5884191!2d63.2852803!1m5!1m1 !1s0x436d3ea933d05687:0xd611216bd7fa542d!2m2!1d76. 5433724!2d60.9431185!2m1!1b1!3e0
My itinerary is vague, as we like to remain flexible.
I hope as we get on the way, to get “inside“ knowledge from locals and bikers and be able to avoid the main roads and use smaller tracks instead.
That is the whole point of taking two small enduro bikes.
We will also use the very useful waypoints file from Walter Colebatch.
I am also keen on using Airbnb as much as possible to get to know the locals, get inside knowledge about roads and what to visit, and practice my Russian!
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Just want to update this with a little more information from a 2018 winter trip which I did...
-Between Tomsk and Strezhevoy (near Nizhnevartovsk) there is a winter road through the Vasyugan Swamp. It does not follow the Ob exactly. In summer there is no road between Kargasok and Alexandrovsk / Strezhevoy. There is a ferry (or perhaps hydrofoil) but I do not know if it takes vehicles (a hydrofoil certainly won't take cars).
-There are winter roads between Nadym and Salekhard, across the Ob from Salekhard to Labytnangi, and down the Ob from Labytnangi via Tegi to Priobye. In summer there are no roads, but there is a car ferry from Priobye to Salekhard.
-There is no road in summer or winter through the Polar Urals. The winter road has not been maintained since Soviet times. There is a railway line, and there is a car transport service between Labytnangi and Ukhta. It's a cargo train, so passengers must take a separate passenger train.
-On satellite maps there is a visible road Ukhta - Nizhny Odes - Pripolyarny - Khulimsunt - Yugorsk / Nyagan. This is a private Gazprom road and is not open to the public.
EO
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