thumb|Red (Karmir) Bridge {{Infobox bridge |bridge_name = Red Bridge |image = |image_size = 300px |alt = |caption = |official_name = |other_name = |carries = |crosses = Hrazdan River |locale = Yerevan, Armenia |maint = |id = |designer = |design = |material = Red tuff |pierswater = |length = 80 m |width = |height = 11 m |mainspan = |spans = |load = |clearance = |below = |traffic = |builder = Khoja-plav (reconstructed) |begin = |complete = 1679 <br/>reconstructed in 1830 <br/>restored in 2025 |open = |life = |preceded = |followed = |heritage = |collapsed = |closed = |toll = |map_cue = |map_image = |map_alt = |map_text = |map_width = |coordinates = {{coord|40.17160|44.49995|type:landmark_region:AM|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |extra = }}
The '''Red Bridge''' ({{langx|hy|Կարմիր կամուրջ}}, ''Karmir kamurj''; also known as the '''Old Bridge of Hrazdan'''; and also known as '''Bridge of Khoja Plav''', {{lang|hy|Խոջա Փլավի կամուրջ}}, ''Khoja Plavi kamurj'') is a 17th-century bridge built of red tuff on the Hrazdan River in Yerevan, Armenia. An earlier bridge in the same place was ruined by the 1679 Armenia earthquake.<ref>{{citeweb|url=https://armenpress.am/en/article/1235265|website=Armenpress|title=Yerevan's Red Bridge reconstructed, reopened to visitors|author=Manvel Margaryan|date=November 17, 2025|access-date=November 18, 2025}}</ref>
The bridge was also called "Khoja-plav bridge" for Khoja-plav, a wealthy man from Kanaker who financed its reconstructruction.<ref>{{in lang|hy}} Yervand Shahaziz, The Old Yerevan ''(Հին Երևանը)'', pp. 186-187</ref>
The total length of the bridge is 80 meters and its height is 11 meters. It has 4 arches. Two are in the middle and squiggly, the other two arches are on the banks of the Hrazdan River.<ref>{{in lang|hy}} V. M. Harutyunyan, Caravanserais and bridges of the Medieval Armenia ''(Միջնադարյան Հայաստանի քարավանատներն ու կամուրջները)'', pp. 12</ref>
The bridge was restored in 2025 as part of a public-private partnership.<ref>{{citeweb|url=https://armenpress.am/en/article/1235265|website=Armenpress|title=Yerevan's Red Bridge reconstructed, reopened to visitors|author=Manvel Margaryan|date=November 17, 2025|access-date=November 18, 2025}}</ref>
==Gallery== ;Historic pictures of the bridge <gallery mode="packed" heights="140px"> 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| </gallery>
;The bridge in the 21st century <gallery mode="packed" heights="140"> File:Խոջա Փլավի 01.JPG|Ruins of the bridge before reconstruction File:Կարմիր կամուրջ 2.JPG|Ruins of the bridge before reconstruction File:Red Bridge, Yerevan, after reconstruction. 01.jpg|The bridge in 2025 after reconstruction File:Red Bridge, Yerevan, after reconstruction. 02.jpg|The bridge in 2025 after reconstruction File:Խոջա Փլավի 01.JPG|Ruins of the bridge before reconstruction 2026 Красный мост в Ереване 2.jpg 2026 Красный мост в Ереване 5.jpg </gallery>
==References== {{reflist}} * {{in lang|hy}} Tadevos Hakobyan; [http://armenianhouse.org/hakobyan-t/yerevan/index.html ԵՐԵՎԱՆԻ ՊԱՏՄՈՒԹՅՈՒՆԸ (1500–1800 ԹԹ.) ''(History of Yerevan (1500-1800)''], 1971, Publishing of YSU, p. 373
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