I think here is not a bad spot but try to get a lift to at least Tver or a gas station far from Moscow where you can catch some truck doing long distance. Maybe it's even better to take a train that goes far away from the city to start HH, incredible amount of local traffic. I did the mistake to accept a ride from a actually good guy, Vladimir, but I lost almost 2-3 hours with him because I thought he was going to Saint Petersburg and he invited me, showed me around etc. He dropped me in a empty gas station where most of people again were locals.

Never had such problems with hitchhiking. Looks like perfect spot but there was a big problem with gas so lot of queue. You can think that lot of people will be able to see you and take you further...well no : nobody on 8 hours took me even when I was talking to them. Direction Moscow : plenty of cars but nobody stopped and a lot were full. Voronej ? Nobody stopped. ROSTOV ? Nobody was going there (at least, from what they said). I met another Russian dude that was working there, Nikita, and like me he needed to go to Rostov. We tried so hard and nobody stopped, not even the Mashoutka on the highway and of course internet was not working in that zone so even getting a taxi took us 2 hours. Gas problem was impacting so much the drivers psychology it's insane!!! Anyway, it was interesting experience tho hahaha

a little bit of traffic, but they definitely go to M11, and chances are that 50% go to Moscow and 50% to St.Petersburg. So if you are stuck in Solnechnogorsk and need to escape it, take the 21/34/27 bus till the graveyard and then just go to the tollgates. ask for gas station along m11 if they dont want to take you far away.

Nice place for start trip from Moscow to Kazan. We arrived by train Moscow-Petushki.

My favourite spot to hitch-hike from Moscow to Minsk/Brest/Warsaw. 15 min from Shalikovo train station

Me and my friend (two guys) were traveling from Moscow to Riga, asked drivers here for the ride to Riga - nobody accepted (BUT maybe you'll be lucky so ask as much as possible). Right after the border on Latvian side there is a good spot to hithc-hike but drivers don't like to stop here. My advice is to walk by the road A12 further. Good luck everybody!

waited ~30min and got two small lifts and one big straight to moscow. not much traffic here

Nice place to hitchhike from Moscow to St. Petersburg: mostly long distance cars, 500m from train station "", waiting time less than 15 minutes : , 500 . , 15

Direction - Moscow. You can come here by walking for 30 minutes from Navasady station.

I started from her to go to moscow but been droped by next city by the rail crossing at ludza , 30 min of wait from 9:10 to 9:40 am of course !

After 1h wait , the police imigration come to check me on with no prob , they where really polite and nice , and so they did stop for me a trucker and asked him to take me with him , he did droped me by the russian border , i wass going toward moscow , i guess most of people where afraid that i wass a migrant ! ( this happen on the 1st and not the 2nd )

Well as mention on the previous point at the border , ive been walking from the border to her than i stand their for about 15/20 min and a trucker stoped and took me all the way to moscow ! So i guess not bad after all !

Well as everyone i waited 3h at the petrol station, ( 30 min by the border then 2h30 at the petrol station ) with no succes , so i start walking for 1h30 with hitchiking each time a car/truck oass by then after 1h30 of walk a trucker stop and take me all the way to moscow , u probably ca. Check further down the new point at the junction where it wass with the same name of course !

There were road works when I got there, so cars had to slow down. The first two that stopped were going towards Samara, the third took us in the direction of Moscow.

Try to avoid hitchhiking from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod on a friday....traffic is insane. While seeing the huge traffic jam going up the hill I tried to get a lift to Nizhny Novgorod from there. After about 20 minutes I just decided to walk along the traffic jam searching eye contact with some driver and stuck out my thumb. That worked pretty well, however walking was the same speed :D TAKE CARE! The hard shoulder can become very dangerous in Russia!

I tried to hitch a ride from somwhere here to moscow. It was quite difficult and I couldn't really find a good place to stand. It's probably best to stand at some of the cross walks. It was also not really worth it to walk on towards the hill to make use of the natural slow down. There's less space and cars are as fast. If you end up here just be patient and within an hour you'll get your lift ;)

From here I hitched a ride to Bologoye to visit Alexey (CS) and have a stopover while hitchhiking from St Petersburg to Moscow. I didn't have to wait for more than 10 minutes.

got dropped of right here because the driver continued to Veliky Novgorod. I just stayed there and it wasn't too bad. I got into a car which was going to moscow. (I was having a stopover in Bologoye at Alexey's place (CS) which is half way to Moscow. )

Very good place for stop to Piter from Moscow

from 30min no one stop us to the Moscow