Shamkir-Samukh-Goranboy main irrigation canal`s crossing installation with the Silk Road and its 4.95km section have been inaugurated.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev attended the event.

Chairman of Azerbaijan Irrigation and Water Management Open Joint Stock Company Ahmad Ahmadzade informed the head of state about Shamkirchay water reservoir and Shamkir-Samukh-Goranboy main irrigation canal project. The first line of the irrigation canal was built in the 1980s. The construction of the 27.95 km-long second line of the canal started in 2015. The building of the 8.55km-long section of Shamkir-Samukh-Goranboy main irrigation canal ended in 2017.

President Ilham Aliyev attended a groundbreaking ceremony of Shamkir water reservoir in 2009 and inaugurated it in 2014.