Most curves, short and original streets in Russia's Yandex

• Best curves, short and original streets in Russia's Yandex

The company "Yandex" has conducted a large study Russian streets. Using data service "Yandex. Maps ", analysts have studied the name, shape and length of 560 thousand in the streets 43 thousand localities.

On average in one village only 13 streets - this is because the country's many villages and villages with two or three streets. The average Russian city consists of 190 streets - from 4 to Innopolis in Tatarstan and to 3800 in Moscow.

The total length of Russian street - more than 395 thousand kilometers, which exceeds the distance from the Earth to the Moon. To pass them all, pedestrians, which moves at a speed of 5 kilometers per hour and never stops, it will take more than nine years. Three-quarters of the street right: their length is almost equal to the shortest distance between the beginning and the end.

The length of the longest street - 22, 6 km. It is located in Perm and is called the Eastern Bypass. The title of the shortest streets claiming many alleys, passages and dead ends, and some of them are not accurately marked on the map. Streets of the city in short all lane Titova in Rostov-on-Don - only 30 meters.

All of the curve in the country was the Ring Street in Morozovsk Rostov region, and most of all the streets with bends in Sochi (15 out of 100 in the country).

The most winding street - English alley in Pavlovsk (Saint-Petersburg): it turn 71.

At 560 thousand streets there are only 83 thousand titles, ie 15% of their numbers. Of these, 61,000 titles occurs only once: for example, in Russia, only one dog street and only one street 8th slot. And the most popular titles can be used up to 11,000 times, and the winner of this award - Central Street.

10 street names can be found in every region of Russia. Half of them are of Soviet origin: Komsomolskaya, Lenin, October, May Day, Soviet, and the other place-names are mainly related to the location: Coast, Central, School, South Street and the World. North Street is slightly larger than the South, but the South is everywhere.

The most common name in most regions are not too different. ORIGINALITY Dagestan: among 100 popular place names of the republic 43 unique name. Followed by Ingushetia (36) and Chechnya (35).

The most likely street named after people. They are dominated by men of letters and the military, followed by the revolutionaries, and members of the Civil War. Most of the streets named after Lenin, followed Gagarin, and the third - Kirov. 46 streets in Russia named after Akhmad Kadyrov.

In honor of Lenin is usually called length of the streets: 61% of Lenin longer than a kilometer. But among the streets of Pushkin and Gagarin only 29% and 28%, respectively, greater than the length of a kilometer.

The second most popular topic for names - places: there are streets in honor of the seas, rivers, countries and individual regions, but most of all - in honor of the city. In the first place, Moscow, which are devoted to the names of streets, alleys and avenues in 1375 settlements. Followed by Leningrad - with such name. St. Petersburg streets and highways only 22.

Other common themes: the Soviet Union (Revolutionary names of the participants of the Civil War and politicians), nature (hilly, reed, Lima), facilities and organizations (Mill, stadium, market, Postal), geometry and street location (Upper, Central, Ring , curve, narrow), industry (Industrial, Industrial, Factory, Locomotive), the profession and the church.

A separate part of the study - the portraits of megacities, from which we can learn that half the streets in Moscow have names that are not found anywhere else, and most of all the streets on one inhabitant in Rostov-on-Don. The most short (up to 100 meters), the most street in St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk, streets with Soviet names most remained in Omsk, and "industrial" street - in Voronezh.