European route E50

European route E 50 is an A-type east–west connection across the European continent. It connects the key naval port of Brest in France with Makhachkala, on the Caspian Sea in the Russian republic Dagestan.

Outlook
Half the route comprises highways and the other half provincial roads. The route is some 6000 km long and runs fully across the European continent.



On its way through Europe it crosses several major European routes, such as:


 * E60 Brest–Vienna
 * E5 Greenock-Algeciras
 * E15 Inverness-Algeciras
 * E45 Alta-Gela
 * E75 Vardø-Pireas

It is one of the longest E roads on the continent.

Since 2014, parts of the road in eastern Ukraine have been under the control of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia took direct control of the areas in Donbas.

Route

 * 🇫🇷 France
 * Brest - Gouesnou
 * Gouesnou - Saint-Brieuc - Tramain - Rennes
 * Rennes
 * Rennes - La Gravelle
 * La Gravelle - Laval - Le Mans
 * Le Mans - Ablis
 * Ablis - Massy
 * Massy - Paris
 * Boulevard Périphérique: Paris
 * Paris - Reims  - Châlons-en-Champagne  - Metz  - Freyming-Merlebach
 * Freyming-Merlebach  - Forbach
 * 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Saarbrücken - Mannheim  - Heilbronn  - Feuchtwangen  - Nürnberg  - Waidhaus
 * 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
 * Rozvadov - Plzeň - Prague
 * Prague
 * Prague (Start of Concurrency with ) - Humpolec   - Jihlava (End of Concurrency with ) - Brno (, End of Concurrency with )
 * Brno - Starý Hrozenkov
 * 🇸🇰 Slovakia
 * Drietoma - Trenčín (, Start of Concurrency with )
 * Trenčín - Žilina
 * Žilina
 * Žilina (End of Concurrency with ) - Martin
 * Martin
 * Martin - Ružomberok
 * Ružomberok - Prešov
 * Prešov
 * Prešov
 * Prešov - Bidovce
 * Bidovce - Vyšné Nemecké
 * 🇺🇦 Ukraine (Note: since April 2021, M12 and M04 Stryi – Kropyvnytskyi – Debaltseve were combined into M30)
 * Uzhhorod border - Uzhhorod
 * Uzhhorod - Mukachevo (, End of Concurrency with ) - Stryi
 * Stryi - Ternopil  - Khmelnytskyi - Vinnytsia  - Uman  - Kropyvnytskyi
 * Kropyvnytskyi - Oleksandriia  - Dnipro  - Donetsk - Debaltseve
 * Debaltseve - Dovzhansky
 * 🇷🇺 Russia
 * border with Ukraine - Novoshakhtinsk (Start of concurrency with)
 * Novoshakhtinsk - Rostov-on-Don - Pavlovskaya (End of concurrency with )
 * Pavlovskaya - Armavir - Mineralnye Vody  - Beslan  - Makhachkala
 * Major towns along the R217 highway (Russia) include Kropotkin, Nevinnomyssk, Mineralnye Vody, Pyatigorsk, Nalchik, Beslan, Grozny, Gudermes, Khasavyurt, Makhachkala, and Derbent on the Caspian Sea. After skirting the Greater Caucasus, the route continues to Baku.