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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From Kronstadt it runs 140 km to Kronstadt; allow about 2 h 08 of riding. It goes by way of Vyborgskaya Road, Koltushskoe Highway, back through Vyborgskaya Road and The Historical Part of the Town of Kronsta. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 25 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Kronstadt's gold dome is visible from a long way off, and it belongs to the Naval Cathedral of Saint Nicholas, a great Byzantine-style church that was finished in 1913 for the sailors of the Baltic Fleet. The Soviets turned it into a cinema and then a sports hall, and a long restoration returned it to its original purpose in 2013. It now stands in the centre of a town that looks like an eighteenth-century naval base surrounded by sea.
Read the complete The Historical Part of the Town of Kronsta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Historical Part of the Town of Kronsta is where the day begins. Next is Petrovsky.
Every road out of Saint Petersburg to the north-west ends up in Finland or in the memory of it, and the Vyborg highway is the old way. It leaves the city through the northern suburbs of Shuvalovo, Pargolovo and Parnas, passing parks, lakes and rows of tower blocks, and then continues over the Karelian Isthmus to Vyborg, a town that belonged to Finland until 1940.
Read the complete Vyborgskaya Road write-up.
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about 40 km into the recorded legs you reach Vyborgskaya Road. 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 Vyborgskaya Road.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vyborgskaya Road write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Vyborgskaya Road sits at 105 km, about halfway. Next is back through Petrovsky.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Historical Part of the Town of Kronsta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Petrovsky comes up about 139 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Historical Part of the Town of Kronsta.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Historical Part of the Town of Kronsta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Historical Part of the Town of Kronsta closes the day.
The Historical Part of the Town of Kronsta → Vyborgskaya Road is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vyborgskaya Road → Koltushskoe Highway is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Koltushskoe Highway → back through Vyborgskaya Road is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vyborgskaya Road → Back to The Historical Part of the Town of Kronsta is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.