Bridge :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Bridge 1893 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Shamkhor / Barsum

Location

The bridge is situated over the river Shamkor in the neighbourhood of Barsumshen Village—purely Armenian-inhabited until 1988—Shamkhor District, Northern Artsakh, a region that suffered deportation of its Armenian population in the same year and has been annexed to Azerbaijan since then.

Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 122.

Historical Introduction
1884 — 1893 yy․

Its construction began in 1884 on Priest Yeprem Melik-Arustamiants’s initiative financially supported by Police Officer Javad Bey Melik-Shahnazariants. Upon the completion of the work in 1893, it represented a double-span bridge of pebble and mortar.

Nor-Dar, 1884, No. 121, p. 2 (the original in Armenian).
Nor-Dar, 1893, No. 47, p. 3 (the original in Armenian).
Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 122.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 468.

Within several decades, however, its vaults were reduced to ruins so that the local people had to replace them with a structure of logs.