Chuisky high road is the most famous road of Altai. It’s a road of federal significance M-52. It starts from the bridge over the Biya River in Biysk city, crosses the territory of Altai and finishes at the state borderline between Russia and Mongolia. Its length is 616, 7 km.

It’s one of the oldest roads in Russia. The record about the road can be found in Chinese chronicle of one thousand’s prescription. And the first records in Russian writing sources are met since 1788, when Russian merchants first reached the Chuya River in Kuraiskaya steppe. That time it was just a mountain path, along which you can only ride the horse.

The first road Khabarovka – Kosh-Agach, suitable for carriages, was built in the end of 19^th century. Later, it was improved, but owing to the lack of repair works it was in a very bad condition. That’s why the expedition was sent to Altai with the aim to make a project of building a new road. However, the work was interrupted by the revolution and the civil war, so the work was resumed again only in 1920s.

In 1934 the building of the most part of the road was finished. And the first motor race took place that year and in 1935 – 1936 the bridges were brought into service. The bridge over the river Katun was particularly interesting – it is the first two-cable bridge in the world.