The Red Bridge ( hy, Կարմիր կամուրջ, ''Karmir kamurj''; also known as the Old Bridge of Hrazdan; and also known as Bridge of Khoja Plav, , ''Khoja Plavi kamurj'') is a ruined 17th-century bridge on the
Hrazdan River
The Hrazdan ( hy, Հրազդան գետ, ) is a major river and the second largest in Armenia. It originates at the northwest extremity of Lake Sevan and flows south through the Kotayk Province and Armenia's capital, Yerevan; the lake in turn is f ...
, in
Yerevan, Armenia.
It was called ‘red’ because as it is built of red
tuff. The bridge was also called "Khoja-plav bridge" for Khoja-plav, a wealthy man from
Kanaker who financed its reconstructruction.
The total length of the bridge was 80 meters and its height was 11 meters. It had 4 arches. Two were in the middle and were squiggly, the other two arches were on the banks of the Hrazdan River.
[ V. M. Harutyunyan, Caravanserais and bridges of the Medieval Armenia ''(Միջնադարյան Հայաստանի քարավանատներն ու կամուրջները)'', pp. 12]
Before the
1679 earthquake there was a bridge in the same place but it was ruined by the earthquake. It provided economic connections between the
Yerevan Fortress (in place of the
Yerevan Ararat Wine Factory) and the Ararat Plain.
Gallery
;Historic pictures of the bridge
File:Erivan1796.jpg
File:August von Haxthausen. Transcaucasia. Bridge and fortress at Erivan.jpg
File:Red bridge, Yerevan.jpg
File:Red Bridge of Yerevan.png
File:Կարմիր կամուրջ.jpg
;Remnants of the bridge
File:Խոջա Փլավի 01.JPG
File:Կարմիր կամուրջ 2.JPG
File:Կարմիր կամուրջ 3.JPG
References
* Tadevos Hakobyan
ԵՐԵՎԱՆԻ ՊԱՏՄՈՒԹՅՈՒՆԸ (1500–1800 ԹԹ.) ''(History of Yerevan (1500-1800)'' 1971,
Publishing of YSU, p. 373
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