Astara

Astara, additionally known as Azerbaijani Astara, is a metropolis in and the capital of the Astara Rayon of Azerbaijan. Astara is a quick stroll throughout the border from Astara, Iran. As the call for for television broadcasting and telecommunication rises for the duration of the early Eighties, the Astara TV Tower was built. The television tower became uniquely designed, as its top is guyed to a horizontal pass-like metal structure.

Located subsequent to the Iranian border, Astara draws numerous site visitors to south of the border, going to Iran to buy goods and services that may not be as simply available on the Azerbaijani side. Astara is presently served by a extensive gauge railway handiest headed north. A fashionable gauge connection to the Iranian railway network along the shore of the Caspian Sea is deliberate. This wreck of gauge station is possibly to be prepared with bogie alternate and SUW 2000 gauge axle tune gauge converting facility.