The Russian Tunnel of Death is a road tunnel in the Lefortovo District in Moscow, Russia, opened in 2003. It has been nicknamed "The Tunnel of Death" due to its high accident rate and a video circulating around the Internet compiling footage of vehicle accidents recorded by monitoring cameras.
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The tunnel is a part of the Third Ring Road. At 2.2 km (1.4 miles) long, it is the seventh longest in-city tunnel of Europe (after the Södra länken in Stockholm at 4.7 km, the Dublin Port Tunnel at 4.5 km, the Giovanni XXIII Tunnel in Rome at 2.9 km, North-Western Tunnel in Moscow at 2.8 km, the Leopold II tunnel in Brussels at 2.7 km and the Prado-Carénage Tunnel in Marseille at 2.45 km).
The "Russian Tunnel of Death" runs under the Yauza River, and water leaks in at some points. The temperature can reach as low as −38 degrees Celsius (as during the winter of 2005), causing the water on the road's surface to freeze.
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