{"id":18373,"date":"2026-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/construction-of-a-7-2-kilometer-tunnel-has-begun-in-southern-armenia\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:00:00","slug":"construction-of-a-7-2-kilometer-tunnel-has-begun-in-southern-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/construction-of-a-7-2-kilometer-tunnel-has-begun-in-southern-armenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction of a 7.2-kilometer tunnel has begun in southern Armenia."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Armenian government has officially launched the construction of a 7.2-kilometer tunnel in the Syunik region. The new structure will form part of the Agarak\u2013Kajaran highway, a key infrastructure project in the country\u2019s south. Construction work was inaugurated by Minister of Territorial Administration Davit Khudatyan and representatives of the contracting firms during a ceremonial event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Agarak\u2013Kajaran road project is being implemented in two stages. The first involves the construction of a 32-kilometer section between Agarak and Kajaran, the majority of which is already complete; this phase also includes the construction of two tunnels and over 15 bridges. This section terminates approximately seven kilometers south of the town of Kajaran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second stage entails the construction of the new 7.2-kilometer tunnel, which will connect the highway to Kajaran and complete this segment of the transport corridor. Armenian authorities have not yet announced a completion date for the project.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Armenian government has officially launched the construction of a 7.2-kilometer tunnel in the Syunik region. The new structure will form part of the Agarak\u2013Kajaran highway, a key infrastructure project in the country\u2019s south. Construction work was inaugurated by Minister of Territorial Administration Davit Khudatyan and representatives of the contracting firms during a ceremonial event.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caucasus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}