Roki Tunnel
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The Roki Tunnel (also called Roksky Tunnel, Georgian: Script error: No such module "Lang".; Template:Langx; Template:Langx) is a mountain tunnel of the Transkam road through the Greater Caucasus Mountains, north of the village Upper Roka. It is the only road joining North Ossetia–Alania in Russia into South Ossetia, a breakaway republic of Georgia. The road is manned at the town of Template:Ill in North Ossetia and is sometimes referred to as the Roki-Nizhny Zaramag border crossing.
The tunnel, completed by the Soviet government in 1984, is one of only a handful of routes that cross the North Caucasus Range. It is at about Script error: No such module "convert". altitude and its length is Script error: No such module "convert"., and near the Roki Pass at about Script error: No such module "convert". altitude, which can only be used in summer.[1][2] The other routes between Georgia and Russia include the Kazbegi–Verkhni Lars customs checkpoint on the Georgian Military Road, closed June 2006
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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.[5] When the Russian authorities blocked the Kazbegi-Verkhni Lars customs checkpoint between June 2006 and March 2010, the Roki Tunnel was the only available road route from Russia to South Ossetia. The tunnel was also used as a supply route for the Russian troops during the 2008 Russo-Georgian War.[6]Script error: No such module "Multiple image".The tunnel was reconstructed due to damage caused by Russo-Georgian War.[7] Reconstruction took <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />2+1⁄2 years and was finished in October 2015.[8]
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