European route E 50 is an A-type east–west connection across the European continent. It connects the key naval port of BrestinFrance with Makhachkala, on the Caspian Sea in the Russian republic Dagestan.
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| Route information | |
| Length | 5,100 km (3,200 mi) |
| Major junctions | |
| West end | Brest, France |
| Major intersections |  E05 Paris E15 Paris E25 Metz E35 (south of) Walldorf E45 Nuremberg E55 Prague E65 Prague E75 Trenčín E85 Ternopil E95 Uman E105 Novomoskovsk E40 Debaltseve E115 Rostov-na-Donu |
| East end |  E119 Makhachkala, Russia |
| Location | |
| Countries |  France Germany Czech Republic Slovakia Ukraine Russia |
| Highway system | |
Half the route comprises highways and the other half provincial roads. The route is 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:
It is one of the longest E roads on the continent.
Since 2014, parts of the road in eastern Ukraine have been under the control of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia took direct control of the areas in Donbas.
France
D 112: Brest (
E60) - Gouesnou
N 12: Gouesnou - Saint-Brieuc - Tramain (
E401) - Rennes
N 136: Rennes (
E3)
N 157: Rennes ( E3) - La Gravelle
A 81: La Gravelle - Laval - Le Mans (
E501)
A 11: Le Mans ( E501 
E502) - Ablis
A 10: Ablis (
E5) - Massy ( E5 
E15)
A 6b: Massy ( E5 E15) - Paris ( E15) E15 
E54)
A 4: Paris ( E15) - Reims (
E17 
E46 
E420) - Châlons-en-Champagne ( E17) - Metz (
E21 
E23 
E25) - Freyming-Merlebach ( E25)
A 320: Freyming-Merlebach ( E25) - Forbach Germany
Czech Republic
Slovakia
I/9: Drietoma - Trenčín (
E572, Start of Concurrency with 
E75 )
D1: Trenčín ( E75 E572) - Žilina (
E442)
D3: Žilina
I/18: Žilina (End of Concurrency with E75) - Martin D1: Martin I/18: Martin - Ružomberok (
E77) D1: Ružomberok - Prešov I/18: Prešov (
E371)
I/20: Prešov D1: Prešov - Bidovce
I/19: Bidovce (
E58 
E71 
E571) - Vyšné Nemecké Ukraine (Note: since April 2021, M12 and M04 Stryi – Kropyvnytskyi – Debaltseve were combined into M30)[1][2]
M 08: Uzhhorod border - Uzhhorod (
E573)
M 06: Uzhhorod ( E573) - Mukachevo (
E81 
E471, End of Concurrency with 
E58) - Stryi ( E471)
M 12: Stryi ( E471) - Ternopil ( E85) - Khmelnytskyi - Vinnytsia (
E583) - Uman ( E95) - Kropyvnytskyi (
E584)
M 04: Kropyvnytskyi ( E584) - Oleksandriia ( E584) - Dnipro ( E105) - Donetsk - Debaltseve ( E40)
M 03: Debaltseve ( E40) - Dovzhansky Russia
A 270: border with Ukraine - Novoshakhtinsk (Start of concurrency with
E115)
M 4: Novoshakhtinsk - Rostov-on-Don (
E58) - Pavlovskaya (End of concurrency with E115)
R 217: Pavlovskaya ( E115) - Armavir - Mineralnye Vody (
E117) - Beslan ( E117) - Makhachkala (
E119)
Geographic data related to European route E50atOpenStreetMap
