Kare Bridge :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Kare Bridge 18 y․

NKR / Shahumian / Buzlukh

Location

The bridge (Kare, i.e. built of stone, is the name with which the local people used to refer to it) extends in quite a deep and extremely narrow section of the river Pokr Kurak, close to prominent rocks towering on both sides of the gorge, 1.5 kilometre north-east of Buzlukh Village, Shahumian District—stripped of its Armenian population and annexed by Azerbaijan since 1992—around 300 metres north of a cemetery preserved in a site called Gyune.

Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 96.

Historical Introduction

Kare, i.e. Built of Stone, is the name with which the local people used to refer to it.

Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 96.

18 c․

Its building peculiarities trace it back to the 18th century, its construction being traditionally ascribed to Pullu Tiuny from Manashid.

Ghahramanian, K. A Home Book. Relics. Yerevan, 2002, p. 45 (the original in Armenian).
Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 96.

Architectural Description

The cornerstones of the vault-bearing arch—the vault is semi-circular—that stretch in two rows are finely-finished, but the stones used in the other parts of the bridge are either totally undressed, or semi-finished. Span length: 3.4 metres; passage width: 3.7 metres; height above water level: 8.7 metres.

Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 96.

Type Photo
View Exterior
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

Type Measurement
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Sketch

Measurement by Samvel Karaptian; preparation for publication by Ashot Hakobian

Date 1984 y․