CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 299 km round trip from Kronstadt - roughly 4 h 50 in the saddle. On the way it passes Primorskoe Highway, The E.I.Lopukhina's, Koltushskoe Highway and back through The E.I.Lopukhina's. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 68 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
To the Russian navy, Kronstadt is the fortress island of Kotlin in the eastern Gulf of Finland, and the forts scattered across the water around it were built to stop any enemy from approaching St Petersburg by sea.
Read the complete Fort «Paul I» write-up.
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Fort «Paul I» is where the day begins. Next is Primorskoe Highway.
Zelenogorsk used to be Terijoki, a Finnish resort town on the Gulf of Finland, and it belonged to Finland until the Winter War of 1939 to 1940, when this stretch of the Karelian Isthmus passed to the Soviet Union. Before that, Terijoki was a place where Russian aristocrats and artists kept summer houses, and the wooden villas that survive among the pines still have some of that air. The Primorskoe highway runs north-west from Saint Petersburg along the shore to Vyborg, and this is the part of it where the road threads a sandy, forested coastal strip with dunes on one side and wet pinewoods on the other.
Read the complete Primorskoe Highway write-up.
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Primorskoe Highway comes up about 68 km into the recorded legs. Next is The E.I.Lopukhina's, 40 km on.
North of Saint Petersburg's centre, the city thins out into a mix of suburbs, dachas, pine woods and the long marshy shores of the Karelian Isthmus.
Read the complete The E.I.Lopukhina's write-up.
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about 119 km into the recorded legs you reach The E.I.Lopukhina's. Next is Koltushskoe Highway.
East of Saint Petersburg, the Koltushskoe highway runs through suburban sprawl and countryside toward the village of Koltushi, and it belongs to a memorial landscape that ties the whole region together: the Green Belt of Glory, a chain of monuments marking the defensive line around Leningrad during the siege of 1941 to 1944, when nearly nine hundred days of blockade cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Monuments, steles and memorials stand along the roads where the front lines and supply routes ran, including the Road of Life across Lake Ladoga.
Read the complete Koltushskoe Highway write-up.
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Koltushskoe Highway, about halfway. Next is back through The E.I.Lopukhina's, 40 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The E.I.Lopukhina's write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The E.I.Lopukhina's sits at 160 km, about halfway. Next is back through Primorskoe Highway.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Primorskoe Highway write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Primorskoe Highway comes up about 228 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort «Paul I».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort «Paul I» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fort «Paul I» closes the day.
Fort «Paul I» → Primorskoe Highway is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Primorskoe Highway → The E.I.Lopukhina's is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The E.I.Lopukhina's → Koltushskoe Highway is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Koltushskoe Highway → back through The E.I.Lopukhina's is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The E.I.Lopukhina's → back through Primorskoe Highway is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Primorskoe Highway → Fort «Paul I» is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.