| Country: | AZE |
| Fuzuli–Shusha highway Victory Road | |
| Translation: | Azerbaijani: Füzuli-Şuşa avtomobil yolu Azerbaijani: Zəfər yolu |
| Terminus A: | Əhmədbəyli |
| Terminus B: | Shusha |
| Length Km: | 101.5 |
| Length Round: | 1 |
| Municipalities: | Fuzuli, Shusha |
The Fuzuli–Shusha highway, also called Victory Road, is a 101.5adj=midNaNadj=mid highway in Azerbaijan that runs from Fuzuli to Shusha. Construction began on 16 November during the visit of President Ilham Aliyev and Vice President Mehriban Aliyeva to the liberated Fuzuli and Jabrayil districts.[1]
The two-lane highway will have a length of 101.5 km [2] and pass through the Fuzuli, Khojavend, Khojaly and Shusha districts.[3]
The road is being built along the path on which, during the Second Karabakh War, in the fall of 2020, the units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces reached Shusha and, as a result of fierce battles, liberated it and established the control over this strategically important city on 8 November 2020.[2]
On 16 November 2020, the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, laid the foundation of the road, which became the first project implemented on the territories that Azerbaijan returned during the conflict. According to Ilham Aliyev, this road will greatly facilitate the travel to Shusha.[4] Immediately after this trip, the President announced the start of the Ahmadbayli- Fuzuli-Shusha highway construction (101.5 km long and 37.7 m wide).[5]
On 14 January 2021, the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, during his trip to Shusha, named the road the "Victory Road".[2] During the trip, he said:
The Victory Road starts from the village of Ahmadbayli in the Fuzuli district and runs through 20 settlements, including the city of Fuzuli, the villages of Tug and Boyuk Taglar, the Khojavend district, the village of Signakh, the Khojaly district, Dashalty, Shusha district,[6] in the direction of the city of.[2] Simultaneously, with this road, a six-lane (first 48 km) Fuzuli-Shusha road is being built, with a total length of 84.6 km and a width of 29.5 and 21.5 m.[6] The Victory Road will cross this track in 8 places.[3]
The construction of the Road is carried out by Azerbaijani (the LLC "Special Road Operation No.16", and the LLC "Operation of Highways No. 7") and Turkish (the "KOLIN" İnşaat Turizm San., the "Tic. Anonim&", and the LLC "Azvirt") companies in coordination with the State Agency for Highways of Azerbaijan. The road is planned to be commissioned by September 2021.[2] On the road is also conducted the construction of 10 underground crossings and 4 road bridges (of 111.4, 45, 90 and 93.4 m long on the 26.9, 37.2, 37.6 and 57.3 km sections of the road, respectively[3]).