Yesayi Bridge :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Yesayi Bridge

NKR / Hadrut / Salakyatin

Location

The bridge of Yesayi used to extend across the river Ishkhanaget in the vicinity of Salakyatin Village—formerly populated by Turks—Hadrut District, Republic of Artsakh (RMK).

Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 99.

Historical Introduction
18 c․

It was built in the late 18th century by Baba Bey Melik-Bakhtamiants’s father and his grandfather on maternal line, Isay Dayi, both of them from Togh Village in origin.

Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 99.

1842 y․

In 1842 a certain Zehnali and Mezhnu from the adjacent Turkish village of Salakyatin destroyed the monument (in the same year, Baba Bey Melik Bakhtamiants informed Aslan Bey Atabekiants about this).

National Archives of Armenia, fund 57, list 1, file 3, p. 79 (the original in Armenian).
Father Topchian H. List of the Collections by Archimandrite Khachik Dadian, part 2, Vagharshapat, 1900, p. 27 (the original in Armenian).
Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 99.