2023 Silk Way Rally Route
0The Organizers presented the route and dates of the 13th edition of the Silk Way Rally.
On November 15, 2022 the Project Organizers presented the route that they had prepared for the 2023 Silk Way Rally. The largest rally-raid competition in Eurasia will be held from 6 to 15 July 2023 in thirteen regions of the Russian Federation and will cross three time zones. The route is planned to include new areas for the Silk Way Rally: the Orenburg, Samara and Saratov regions, as well as Magnitogorsk in the Chelyabinsk region.
Oleg Matytsin, Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation, “The Silk Way Rally has been one of the largest international motorsport competitions and the flagship of the Russian rally-raids for many years. Today this event is one of the most ambitious and large-scale sports projects in Russia, as well as a unifying platform for economic and cultural interaction.
Continuing the traditions of the pioneers, this year the Silk Way Rally competitors will have to fight in unexplored territories again, discover the regions of the country, meet the local culture and nature, and reveal the potential in a new way. Year after year the Silk Way Rally Directorate creates the most exciting
and unusual routes, and 2023 will be no exception”.
The administrative checks and scrutineering will take place in Kazan on July 5 and 6. During the Ceremonial Start the competitors will drive through the Starting Podium on the Millennium Square. Then, through Tatarstan and Bashkiria, the field will reach Magnitogorsk located on the eastern slope of the Southern Urals. Due to the difficult terrain, these tracks will be an unusual experience for all crews. From the Urals drivers will go to discover the steppe and flat high-speed tracks of the Orenburg region, Samara and Saratov regions; and the final test will be the Archeda-Don Sands in the Volgograd region, as well as impassability
and fords of Tula and Lipetsk regions – the competitors know these places well and know how treacherous they can be. The Rally will finish in Moscow.