A standard view of Russian roads. The dirt strips either side were used as a hard shoulder
that you could pull onto when there was no parking area handy.
On stretches of the road between Borisov and Moscow the road was that wide that you
could have got 8 trucks, side by side, on it.
To be fair the surface on the road from Brest to Moscow was not too bad.
There were the occasional pot holes but you soon learned where they were.
Then you could avoid them
Other Russian roads were not so good and the tarmac could disappear and
you would find yourself driving on shale, or shingle.
Mick