The Stepanakert airport, the existence of which concerns Azerbaijan – and from time to time statements are made from there – will be ready to carry out flights in a few weeks. Hovhannes Tokmajyan, the rector of Yerevan State University of Architecture and
Construction, who had had a few flights already, although by helicopter, said about this today.
The Stepanakert airport has been designed by Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction (designer: Tigran Barseghyan), has been built under the guidance of Gagik Galstyan, a member of the council of the same university and the president of the Republic of Armenia Union of Constructors.
Hohannes Tokmajyan asserts that the airport reminds of a falcon or a helicopter preparing to take off. In order to carry out the project, serious engineering solutions have been made, even two mountains have been cut off, in order to carry out a flight without approaching the Azerbaijani territory.
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“This is an unprecedented event for civil aviation. The supermodern devises set up at the airport supervise a flight starting from a few kilometers. One can see both Yerevan and Baku from the remote control,” Mr. Tokmajyan says.
According to him, the government of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic intends to build a new building for the airport. “I think that the Stepanakert airport has already played its role, although flights have basically not been carried out yet. Only the fact that the symbols of Artsakh – grandmother and grandfather – as well as the pictures of the airport are on everybody’s, also our opponents’, websites means that the airport has already played its political role. I don’t think that there can be any sovereign state without an airport. From this perspective, building the airport was a necessity and is one of the best among the projects carried out in past years.”
Gohar HAKOBYAN
