Silk Way Rally

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Silk Way Rally

Category	Rally raid
Region	Eurasia
Inaugural season	2009
Drivers' champion	Alexander Rusanov (Cars) Alexey Naumov (Bikes) Dmitry Sotnikov (Trucks) Dmitry Kalinin (Quads) Toylyev Merdan (Production) Nikita Mazepin (SSV)
Constructors' champion	GAZ (Cars) KTM (Bikes) Kamaz (Trucks) Can-Am (Quads) Lada (Production) Can-Am (SSV)
Official website	www.silkwayrally.com

The Silk Way Rally (Russian: Шёлковый путь) is an annual rally raid type of off-road race. The first Silk Way Rally was raced in 2009 from Kazan, Russia to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. From 2010 to 2013, the race has taken place in Russia. The 2016 edition had a Moscow-Astana-Beijing route, the 2017 edition starts in Moscow and finishes in Xi'an, China.

From 2009 to 2011, the rally was part of ASO's Dakar Series. In previous editions several stages of Silk Way Rally also constituted a part of Russian Rally Championship as well as the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies.

In 2023 Bulat Yanborisov, a director of Silk Way was exposed as a GRU Russian agent and that Silk Way had a geo-political agenda to aid Russia.^[1]