km vs miles...
You find Russia is a km country so miles won't be of much use there ...
100 miles = 161 km.
You need to start thinking in km  - easy once you get into to it. All the signs will be in km (and cyrillic just to add to the confusion)
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A straight line between the two is ~ 650km (~400 miles). So the road distance will be more. Probably a lot more. Adding say 30% could be good if not too twisty. I'd plan on 2 days travel.
Some experience?
Accurate mileage? Well the map may have been accurate when it was compiled, but since then the road has been realigned. Not uncommon. Especially for unsealed roads! Take a look at the date of the map... and then think of that as the date it was printed, the drawing date would have been before that and the data date before that... its old when new! And then add it the side trips you want to do to get to the top of the hill on the side for a good view/photo... The distances and even the road directions are guides only, what you get in practice is something else. If that were not the case you could simulate it on a computer and not leave home at all
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