European route E 50 is an A-type east–west connection across the European continent. It connects the key naval port of Brest France with Makhachkala, on the Caspian Sea in the Russian republic Dagestan.
Half the route is on highways and the other half is on provincial roads. The route is in estimation some 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) long and runs fully across the European continent.
On its way through Europe it crosses several major European routes, such as:
E60 Brest–Vienna
E05 Greenock-Algeciras
E15 Inverness-Algeciras
E45 Karesuando-Gela
E75 Tana Bru-Pireas
It is one of the longest roads on the continent.
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 () - Praha ()
Praha ( )
Praha (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 - Košice
Košice ( , Start of Concurrency with )
Košice ( ) - Vyšné Nemecké
Ukraine
Uzhhorod border - Uzhhorod ()
Uzhhorod () - Mukacheve ( , End of Concurrency with ) - Stryi ()
Stryi () - Ternopil () - Khmelnytskyi - Vinnytsia () - Uman () - Kropyvnytskyi ()
Kropyvnytskyi () - Oleksandriia () - Dnipropetrovsk () - Donetsk - Debaltseve ()
Debaltseve () - Dovzhansky
Russia
(Formerly ) Shakhty (Start of concurrency with) Rostov-on-Don () - Pavlovskaya (End of concurrency with )
(Formerly ) Pavlovskaya () - Armavir - Mineralnye Vody () - Beslan () - Makhachkala ()