Stepan Bridge :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Stepan Bridge 1886 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Banants

Location

This is another bridge lying over the river Artinajoor in Banants Village, Karhat (Dashkesan) District, Northern Artsakh—a region that suffered deportation of its Armenian population in 1988 and has been annexed to Azerbaijan since then.

Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 121.

Historical Introduction
1886 y․

It was erected within a year (1886) on Village Head Stepan Hovhannissiants’s initiative and through the local people’s means (2,000 roubles).