Until 1991, Armenia had a direct railway to its southern cities of Meghri and Kapan. The Yerevan-Baku Railway was stretched across the territory of Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic.
In 1991, when the Karabakh war broke out, Azerbaijan closed the railway with Armenia even though it lost its railway connection with its exclave Nakhijevan. About 40 km of the railway went through the southern border of Armenia.
Today, this railway and the entire engineering system that stretches along the southern border of Armenia, along the Araks River, is nonexistent. Only large tunnels and smoothed land routes are left to remind that once there existed a railroad here.
