Silk Way Rally

The Silk Way International Rally is one of the most ambitious projects in the world of motor sports. The race was first held in 2009, connecting Russia, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. In 2010–2015, the rally was routed across Russia. In 2016–2017, the race traversed Russia, Kazakhstan, and China. In 2018, it ran across Russia and China. In 2019, the rally passed through Russia, Mongolia, and China. In 2021, the rally participants covered a distance of over 3,500 kilometers across Russia.

The 2022 and 2023 editions of the Silk Way Rally took place in Russia. For both of said editions (that took off from Astrakhan and Kazan, respectively), the organizers chose Moscow, the capital of our Motherland, as the finish city of the rally.

In 2023, the route of Eurasia's largest race covered a total of 5,248 kilometers, including 2,277 kilometers of competitive distance, and connected 13 regions of the Russian Federation: the Republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, the Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Samara, Saratov, Volgograd, Voronezh, Tambov, Lipetsk, and Tula Regions, as well as the Moscow Region and Moscow. The Ceremonial Finish took place on Vasilievsky Spusk Square near the walls of the Moscow Kremlin and was attended by a record-high number of fans.

The competition attracts some of the world's best racers and most acclaimed rally raid teams:

KAMAZ-Master (Russia), GAZ Raid Sport (Russia), MSK Rally Team (Russia), Uspenskiy Rally Tecnica (Russia), Snag Racing (Russia), ISF Racing (Russia), MAZ Autosport (Belarus), Overdrive Racing (Belgium), Qatar WRT (Qatar), SRT (France), PH-Sport (France), Geely Auto Shell Lubricant Team (China), Raid Lynx (France), Land Cruiser Toyota Autobody (Japan), Rallyraid.bg (Bulgaria), JATON RACING (Spain), Shanxi Yunxiang Qimosport (China), XTreme Plus (France), TEAM MONGOLIA NUMBER ONE (Mongolia), Mammoet Rally Sport (Netherlands), Hino Team Sugawara (Japan), CRV (Israel), and many others.

Since 2009, Gazprom has been a general partner of the Silk Way Rally.

In 2013, the gas-fueled KAMAZ, a special sports truck powered by natural gas, made a successful debut at the rally. Created by the KAMAZ-Master team with the support of Gazprom, the truck is meant to promote the use of natural gas as a vehicle fuel. Such marathon rallies provide abundant proof of the reliability of gas equipment in the most extreme conditions.

The crew of the gas-diesel KAMAZ truck driven by Sergey Kupriyanov continues to promote eco-friendly technologies and successfully demonstrates the competitiveness and reliability of the vehicles that use gas-diesel engines. This is proved by the consistent victories in the rally among eco-friendly vehicles.

The KAMAZ-Master team created a new modification of the gas-fueled KAMAZ for the Silk Way Rally 2018. The truck driven by Sergey Kupriyanov overcame every challenge and took 4th place in the general trucks category in the Russian part of the rally.

In 2019, the gas-fueled KAMAZ driven by Sergey Kupriyanov finished in the top five in the trucks category at the Silk Way Rally 2019.

In 2021, the eco-friendly gas-powered KAMAZ driven by Sergey Kupriyanov made it to the top ten, finishing seventh overall.