Roki Tunnel
tunnel in Russia and South Ossetia/Georgia
The Roki Tunnel (also known as the Roksky Tunnel; Georgian: როკის გვირაბი; Ossetian: Ручъы тъунел; Russian: Рокский туннель) is a road tunnel through the Greater Caucasus Mountains. It forms part of the Transkam road and connects North Ossetia–Alania in Russia with South Ossetia, a region internationally recognized as part of Georgia but de facto controlled by the South Ossetian authorities. The tunnel was completed in 1984 and is approximately 3,730 metres long.
The tunnel, completed by the Soviet government in 1984, is one of only a handful of routes that cross the North Caucasus Range. The tunnel lies at an elevation of approximately 2,000 metres and is 3,730 metres long. It passes beneath the Greater Caucasus near the Roki Pass, which reaches an elevation of approximately 3,000 metres and is accessible only during the summer months.
The other routes between Georgia and Russia include the Kazbegi–Verkhni Lars customs checkpoint on the Georgian Military Road, closed June 2006 and reopened 2010, and the Gantiadi–Adler crossing in Abkhazia which Georgia asserts functions illegally.
The tunnel has been important throughout the Georgian–Ossetian conflict. The South Ossetian authorities use tolls levied on tunnel traffic as one of their main sources of revenue. The Georgian government, backed by the United States, has long called for the South Ossetian side of the tunnel to be placed under the control of international monitors, rather than by the South Ossetian secessionists and their Russian allies.
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