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| Maintained by | City ofBaku |
|---|---|
| Location | Nasimi raion |
| south end | Bakikhanov Street |
| Major junctions | Jafar Jabbarly Street |
| north end | Inshaatchilar Avenue |
Tbilisi Avenue (Azerbaijani:Tbilisi prospekti) is anarterial road in northern part ofBaku, capital ofAzerbaijan. It begins at the intersection of Bakikhanov and Jaffar Jabbarly streets and continues north terminating at 20 January Circle by20 January metro station.
The avenue was renamed Tbilisi Avenue from its earlier nameSaray Highway on September 13, 1963, by the Baku Executive Soviet. Different from its current length, it stretched further to the outskirts of Baku up to the settlement ofKhyrdalan just outside Baku and connect toBaku-Quba highway, but that portion of the avenue was renamed to Moscow Avenue on June 14, 2004, byMayor of BakuHajibala Abutalybov due to the earlier renaming on that day of a bigger highway leading from central Baku to theHeydar Aliyev International Airport from Moscow Avenue to Heydar Aliyev Avenue.[1] The area is also known for its bitter past when theSoviet Army tanks rolled through Tbilisi Avenue onJanuary 20, 1990 massacring hundreds of civilians on their way with most of them killed at the 20 January Circle.
