Aksay

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Aksay
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Country:	Russia
State:	Rostov Oblast
Major roads:	M4
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Aksay (Russian: Аксай) is a satellite city of Rostov-on-Don in Russia.

The city has a railway station of the North Caucasus Railway, which can be used to leave the Rostov agglomeration for the "Don" highway. Here, the M4 consists of several toll and free highways with their own hitchhiking characteristics. Marshrutkas and buses also go to Aksay until late at night.

Hitchhiking out

South towards Krasnodar via the free M4 motorway

• It makes sense to get off at the "Steklozavod" railway station and hitchhike from there along Gulaeva Street up to the interchange with the M4. Slightly south of this interchange is a police checkpoint before the bridge over the river. Several buses run along Gulaeva Street to the left bank of the Don and will take you to the turn to Rostov port, but the position there is worse than at the checkpoint.
• Behind the police checkpoint before the Aksay bridge, a "Metro" hypermarket has opened.

South towards Krasnodar via the toll bypass of Rostov-on-Don

• Take the commuter train three stops beyond "Aksay" station (towards Novocherkassk) to the stop "1993 km." From there, it's only 1.5 km on foot to the interchange at Bolshoy Log village.
• Buses 152a, 236, 512, 515 and marshrutkas 111 and 223 also go to Bolshoy Log.

North towards Voronezh and Moscow on the M4

• Between the Novocherkassk interchange and Bolshoy Log, there is a toll gate "1046" on the toll road. This point is key for hitchhiking both towards Krasnodar and Moscow.

North towards Novocherkassk and Shakhty via the Novocherkassk Highway

• From "Steklozavod" platform, go on foot or hitchhike to the police checkpoint near the Aksay bridge.
• Buses 124, 133, 155v, 156, 232, 236, 240, 511, 512 and marshrutkas 2, 128a, 223, 240 go to the "Aksayskiy povorot" stop opposite the "Mega" shopping center. Here, the traffic from Aksay and Rostov merges in the direction of Novocherkassk. Downsides: many locals hitchhike from here, and there is a large flow of taxi drivers.

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