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Map of the area. The Georgian Military Road or Georgian Military Highway [a] also known as Ghalghaï Military Road, [2] [b] is the historic name for a major route through the Caucasus from Georgia to Russia. Alternative routes across the mountains include the Ossetian Military Road and the Transcaucasian Highway.
In the early 1980s the Soviet road numbering system was overhauled and the Georgian Military Road became part of the A-301 between Tbilisi (Natakhtari junction with M-27, the current S1) and Beslan. [6] After Georgia regained independence in 1991, the A-301 designation was maintained until 1996 when the current route numbering system was adopted.
1 International/World. 2 Africa. ... Map of highways in China's National Trunk Highway System. ... Georgian Military Road; Amur Cart Road (historical)
Roads of "international importance" in Georgia European and Asian highways through Georgia. Since the introduction of the current system, the Georgian network of numbered roads has been gradually expanding. In 2011, the S13 was added as an S-trunk highway, promoted from an Sh-road, after the decision to open a new border crossing with Turkey ...
Direction and destination signs in Georgia are in both Georgian and Latin scripts, but the prefix is only displayed in Georgian. Article 3.3 of the law on motor roads [2] defines that: roads of international importance include roads connecting the administrative, important industrial and cultural centers of Georgia and other countries.
The E117 starts from Mineralnye Vody, Russia, via the Georgian Military Road to Georgia's capital Tbilisi, via the Armenian capital Yerevan and on to Meghri on the border of Iran. It runs for a total distance of 1,050 km (650 mi). Between Mineralnye Vody and Beslan, it is concurrent with E50 and Russian highway M29.
[1] [2] The other routes between Georgia and Russia include the Kazbegi–Verkhni Lars customs checkpoint on the Georgian Military Road, closed June 2006 [3] and reopened 2010, and the Gantiadi–Adler crossing in Abkhazia which Georgia asserts functions illegally. [4] The tunnel has been important throughout the Georgian–Ossetian conflict ...
Instead, the Ossetian Military Road via the Mamison Pass was constructed in the 19th century which was until 1984 the shortest option to reach South Ossetia by road from the north, besides the Georgian Military Road via Kazbegi. This lack of direct connections between the Ossetian communities on either side of the mountains triggered the ...