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    ABOUT RESTORATION OF TRANS-CAUCASIAN RAILWAY

    The Messenger
    Dec 4 2012
    Georgia

    During the Soviet Union, there were two railway lines connecting
    Russia with the S. Caucasus. One ran through Azerbaijan and the
    other through Georgia along the Black Sea coast and finally ending
    up in Armenia. In fact this railway entailed almost the entire South
    Caucasus. But in the 1990s, both routes were closed down because of
    the hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan and inside Georgia due
    to the Russian-inspired conflict in the separatist oriented Abkhazia.

    For more than 20 years these lines have been cut. Armenia in
    particular is in desperate need of restoration of the railway links
    with Russia. These two countries are strategic partners, but there is
    no land connection between two countries. Only direct communication
    can be established by air, but even this is problematic, because it
    makes transportation of goods very expensive and there is always threat
    that the countries around Armenia could block and close the air-space
    for such flights. Armenia so far is exercising only one route of
    land connection with Russia and this is automobile transport through
    Georgia. But the railway connection is discussed by people from time
    to time. One thing is the rehabilitation of the existing railways
    along the Black Sea coast, passing Abkhazian territory and coming
    into Georgia's mainland and further to Armenia. There are new ways
    possible of constructing a trans-Caucasian railway, directly passing
    from Russia into Georgia, though it is a very expensive project which
    will need much financial expenditure and technical efforts.

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