European route 691

European route 691
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Basic data
Overall length:	560 km
States :	Armenia Georgia Turkey
Course of the road Armenia as Մ 1 Ashtarak Gyumri Georgia as Ninozminda Akhalkalaki as Akhaltsikhe Whales Turkey as Posof Back then Hanak as Susuz Kars as Selim Sarıkamış as Karakurt Horasan

The European route 691 ( E 691 for short ) is a European trunk road in the Lesser Caucasus and the adjacent mountain areas. Geographically, it runs along its entire length in Asia .

The road leads from Ashtarak , in Armenia not far from the capital Yerevan on the E 117 , via Gyumri to Akhaltsikhe in Georgia , from there to Turkey via Kars to Horasan , where there is a connection to the E 80 .

The road initially only ran from Ashtarak to Wale in Georgia, but was extended to Horasan in 2004 in order to create a connection to the European road network in Turkey. Thus it represents the shortest road connection between Armenia and Turkey with a detour via Georgia, because the direct border and between the neighboring states are closed for political reasons and the significantly shorter direct connection is therefore not passable.

km	course	National number	Connections (European and national roads)
	ARMENIA
0	Ashtarak , Aragatsotn Province	M 1	E 117 , M 3
	Talin		M 9
	Maralik , Shirak Province
	Gyumri		M 7
	GEORGIA
	Ninozminda , Samtskhe-Javakheti region	S 11
	Akhalkalaki
	Aspindsa
	Akhaltsikhe	S 8
	Whales
	TURKEY
	Posof , Ardahan Province	D 955
	Back then
	Hanak
	Ölçek	D 965	D 010
	Susuz , Kars Province
	Çamçavuş		D 060
	Kars	D 957	D 070
	Selim
	Sarıkamış
	Karakurt	D 080
560	Horasan , Erzurum Province		E 80 , D 100

See also

• List of European roads

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TRANS / SC.1 / 375 Report of the Working Party on Road Transport on its Ninety-eighth Session (PDF; 102 kB). TRANS / SC.1 / 375, December 1, 2004 (English)