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 Map of AH8 in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Length | 4,907 km (3,049 mi) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| North end | Torfyanovka, Russia | |||
| South end | Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni, Iran | |||
| Location | ||||
| Countries |  Russia  Azerbaijan  Iran | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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Asian Highway 8 (AH8) is a road in the Asian Highway Network running 4907 km (3050 miles) from Torfyanovka, Russia to Bandar-e Shahpour, Iran. The route is as follows:
A 181 / E18: (
Finland 
E18) - Torfyanovka - Vyborg - Saint Petersburg 
M 10 / E105 (or 
M 11): Saint Petersburg - Moscow 
M 4 / E119: Moscow - Kashira 
R 22 / E119: Kashira - Tambov-Borisoglesk(
E38) - Volgograd (Start of Concurrency 
E40) - Astrakhan(End Of Concurrency E40)
R 215 / E119: Astrakhan ( E40) - Khasavyurt - Mahachkala *(
E50)
R 217 / E119:Mahachkala ( E50) - Kazmalyarskiy - Samur 
Road 49: Astara - Rasht 
Freeway 1: Rasht - Qazvin 
Freeway 2: Qazvin - Tehran 
Freeway 5: Tehran - Saveh - Salafchegan 
Road 56: Salafchegan - Arak - Borujerd 
Road 37: Borujerd - Khorramabad Freeway 5: Khorramabad - Andimeshk Road 37: Andimeshk - Ahvaz Freeway 5: Ahvaz - Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni Freeway 5: Tehran - Saveh - Salafchegan - Arak - Borujerd - Khorramabad - Andimeshk - Ahvaz - Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni )
The international E-road network is a numbering system for roads in Europe developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The network is numbered from E1 up and its roads cross national borders. It also reaches Central Asian countries like Kyrgyzstan, since they are members of the UNECE.
Iran has a long paved road system linking most of its towns and all of its cities. In 2011 the country had 173,000 kilometres (107,000 mi) of roads, of which 73% were paved. In 2008 there were nearly 100 passenger cars for every 1,000 inhabitants.
The Asian Highway Network (AH), also known as the Great Asian Highway, is a cooperative project among countries in Asia and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) to improve their connectivity via highway systems, funded by G77 Gold Standards. It is one of the three pillars of the Asian Land Transport Infrastructure Development (ALTID) project, endorsed by the ESCAP commission at its 48th session in 1992, comprising Asian Highway, Trans-Asian Railway (TAR) and facilitation of land transport projects.
European route E 60 is the second-longest road in the International E-road network and runs 8,200 km (5,100 mi), from Brest, France, to Irkeshtam, Kyrgyzstan.
The Trans-Iranian Railway was a major railway building project started in Pahlavi Iran in 1927 and completed in 1938, under the direction of the then-Iranian monarch Reza Shah. It was entirely built with indigenous capital, and links the capital Tehran with Bandar Shahpur on the Persian Gulf in the south and Bandar Shah on the Caspian Sea in the north, via Ahvaz and Ghom. In 1961, under Reza Shah's son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, it was extended from Bandar Shah to a new terminus in Gorgan. During the land reforms of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1963, as part of the "White Revolution", the Trans-Iranian railway was extended to link Tehran to Mashhad, Tabriz and Isfahan.
Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni is a city in, and the capital of, Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni District of Mahshahr County, Khuzestan province, Iran. The city also serves as the administrative center for Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni Rural District.
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European route E 50 is an A-type east–west connection across the European continent. It connects the key naval port of Brest in France with Makhachkala, on the Caspian Sea in the Russian republic Dagestan.
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake and sometimes referred to as a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau. It covers a surface area of 371,000 km2 (143,000 sq mi), an area approximately equal to that of Japan, with a volume of 78,200 km3 (19,000 cu mi). It has a salinity of approximately 1.2%, about a third of the salinity of average seawater. It is bounded by Kazakhstan to the northeast, Russia to the northwest, Azerbaijan to the southwest, Iran to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southeast.
Freeway 5 is a freeway in Iran connecting two cities of Tehran and Bandar Imam via Saveh, Arak, Borujerd, Khorramabad, Andimeshk and Ahvaz. This freeway is part of North-South Corridor. It starts from Azadegan Expressway and ends at Bandar Imam. It runs along Road 65, Road 56 and Road 37. The AADT of the section from Ahvaz to Bandar Imam is 15,000, of which 2,500 are Iraqi tankers.
The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran or Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia was the joint invasion of the neutral Imperial State of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union in August 1941. The two powers announced that they would stay until six months after the end of the war with their mutual enemy, Nazi Germany, which turned out to be 2 March 1946. On that date the British began to withdraw, while the Soviet Union delayed until May, initially citing "threats to Soviet security", followed by the Iran crisis of 1946.
E119 is a European B class road in Russia and Azerbaijan, connecting the cities Moscow - Astrakhan - Baku - Makhachkala - Astara, near the border with Iran.
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