Transcaucasian trunk road

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The Transcaucasian Highway crosses the Greater Caucasus and connects Russia with Georgia . In addition to the Georgian Army Road , it is the most important north-south connection across the mountains. It runs through the conflict area of South Ossetia , so the border crossing to Russia cannot be monitored by Georgia. In the Caucasus War of 2008 , it served the Russian armed forces and paramilitary units as the main gateway to South Ossetia.

The trunk road runs from the Ardon Valley in North Ossetia in a south-easterly direction, crosses under the main Caucasus ridge through the Roki tunnel at about 2000  m , leads through the village of Jawa along the Great Liachwi to Tskhinvali , the capital of South Ossetia, and from there to Gori , the district capital of the Schida Kartli region .

Until 1985 the road ran over the Roki Pass at an altitude of 2995  m . The pass forms the border between Russia and Georgia.

The Russian part of the road is A164signposted and is also called Transkam ( Транска вка́зская ма гистра́ль).

literature

  • Konstantin I. Spidchenko: USSR, geography of the eleventh five-year plan period , Progress Publishers, 1984, p. 140.

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