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Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan>DistrictLachin District>Lachin| leader_title = MayorDATE= WEBSITE= LACHIN-IH.GOV.AZ, 2022-03-03, | population_as_of = 2023| population_total = 793| population_footnotes = 93 nÉ™fÉ™r Laçına yola düşdü| population_density_km2 = auto| timezone = UTC| utc_offset = +439274649region:GE-AB|display=inline,title}}}}Lachin (, {{small|{{Audio|Az-Lachin.ogg|(listen)|help=no}}}}, {{lit|falcon}}; ) is a town in Azerbaijan and the administrative centre of the Lachin District. It is located within the strategic Lachin corridor, which linked the region of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia.BOOK,www.worldcat.org/oclc/971245887, The international politics of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict : the original “frozen conflict” and European security, 2017, Svante E. Cornell, 978-1-137-60006-6, New York, NY, 971245887, The town was occupied by Armenian forces in 1992, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, and its local Azerbaijani and Kurdish population was expelled, while Armenians settled in. The town came under the de facto control of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, administered as part of its Kashatagh Province. It came under the supervision of the Russian peacekeeping force following the ceasefire agreement that ended the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. Lachin and the villages of Sus and Zabukh were returned under Azerbaijan’s control on 26 August 2022 as part of the 2020 ceasefire agreement.WEB, 26 August 2022, Azerbaijani forces are stationed in Lachin, Karabakh: President Aliyev,www.dailysabah.com/politics/diplomacy/azerbaijani-forces-are-stationed-in-lachin-karabakh-president-aliyev, 2022-08-26, Daily Sabah, en-US,

History

Early history

Cuneiform inscriptions dating back to the Urartian period have been found in the caves surrounding the town.JOURNAL, A.E. Movsisyan, Damaged Cuneiform Inscription of Berdzor Cave, Yerevan State University, Спелеология и спелестология, 7, 2016, 248–249,www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=32437250, ru, The area was first mentioned by Armenian sources as Berdadzor (), a canton of the historic Artsakh province of Greater Armenia;Hewsen. Armenia, pp. 100–103.WEB,akunq.net/hy/?p=2195, Õ„Õ¥Õ® Õ€Õ¡ÕµÖ„Õ« Õ¾Õ¡Ö€Õ¹Õ¡Õ¯Õ¡Õ¶ Õ¢Õ¡ÕªÕ¡Õ¶Õ¸Ö‚Õ´Õ¨, April 29, 2021, December 27, 2013,akunq.net/hy/?p=2195," title="web.archive.org/web/20131227011725akunq.net/hy/?p=2195,">web.archive.org/web/20131227011725akunq.net/hy/?p=2195, dead, it was alternatively transcribed as Beradzor, Berdzor, or Berdzork.The Dictionary of the toponyms of Armenia and the adjacent regions, Volume 3, Yerevan State University, YSU Publishing House, Yerevan, 1988, p. 665. The reputed author Movses Kaghankatvatsi mentions a so-called Berdzor horse purportedly indigenous to the region, as does (:hy:Õ„Õ¡Õ¯Õ¡Ö€ Ô²Õ¡Ö€Õ­Õ¸Ö‚Õ¤Õ¡Ö€ÕµÕ¡Õ¶|Makar Barkhudaryan), an Apostolic bishop, traveler, polymath, and ethnographer from Shusha.BOOK, Barkhudaryan, Makar,www.worldcat.org/oclc/44548270, AghuanitsÊ» erkir ew dratsÊ»ikÊ» ; ArtsÊ»akh, 1895, Gandzasar Astuatsabanakan Kentron, 99930-70-01-7, Baku, 44548270, During the mediaeval period, the town Berdzor was mentioned as being a part of the Artsakh province within the domain of the Armenian Bagratid Kingdom.JOURNAL, Minorsky, Vladimir, Caucasica IV, London, Cambridge University Press, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 15, 3, 1953, 504–529, 10.1017/S0041977X00111462,kurditi.com/upload/files/2019/05/WBGZKlWMVEGprsSecD76_17_790a02f17f8e039d5deb7d0c56e227ba_file.pdf, 608652, 246637768, Jalal al-Din Mangburni’s private secretary Shihab ad-Din an-Nasawi referred to the settlement as both Berdadzor and a new name, Kaladara.Шихаб ад-дин ан-Насави. Сират ас-султан Джалал ад-Дин Манкбурны (ЖИЗНЕОПИСАНИЕ СУЛТАНА ДЖАЛАЛ АД-ДИНА МАНКБУРНЫ), Ðœ. 1996, стр. 270Berdzor had its own local Meliks during the 15th-17th centuries and fell under the jurisdiction of the Armenian Melikdom of Kashatagh.Карагезян А. К локализации гавара Кашатаг Вестн. обществ. наук АН АрмССР. 1987. No. 1. С. 44—45. The Armenian settlement of Berdzor was eventually abandoned. Following the displacement of the Armenian population, the area was then repopulated with Kurdish tribes.Шнирельман Ð’.А. Войны памяти: мифы, идентичность и политика в Закавказье. — ИКЦ «Академкнига», 2002. — С. 199. — {{ISBN|5-94628-118-6}} The modern settlement was built using the stones from the ancient Armenian settlement.BOOK, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, 169, Berdzor (Lachin), Samvel, Karapetyan, Samvel Karapetyan (author), http:www.raa-am.com/raa/pdf_files/136.pdf, 2001, “Gitutiun” Publishing House of Armenian National Academy of Sciences, NAS RA, 5-8080-0468-3, May 26, 2021, October 19, 2021,www.raa-am.com/raa/pdf_files/136.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20211019181544www.raa-am.com/raa/pdf_files/136.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20211019181544www.raa-am.com/raa/pdf_files/136.pdf, dead, The town was formerly also known as Abdallar, named after the Turkic Abdal tribe.Pospelov, p. 23Karapetian, Samvel. Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabagh. Yerevan: Gitutiun Publishing House, 2001, p. 169.Map of Armenia and Adjacent Countries by H. F. B. Lynch and F. Oswald in Armenia, Travels and Studies. London: Longmans, 1901. In 1914, Abdallar was a small relatively insignificant village of about 124 Tatars.BOOK,www.prlib.ru/item/417320, Кавказский календарь на 1915 год, Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom, 1915, 70th, Tiflis, 82, Russian, Caucasian calendar for 1915, Абдалляръ с., Елис., Занг., Ñ‚Ñ€. 124,web.archive.org/web/20211104234033/https://www.prlib.ru/item/417320, 4 November 2021, It was granted town status in 1923 and then renamed Lachin (a Turkic first name meaning falcon) in 1926.WEB,dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc3p/176226, ЛАЧИН, dic.academic.ru, In the early 1920s, Vladimir Lenin’s letter to Nariman Narimanov “had implied that Lachin was to be included in Azerbaijan, but the authorities in Baku and Yerevan were given promises that were inevitably contradictory.“Alexandre Bennigsen and S. Enders Wimbush. Muslims of the Soviet Empire. C. Hurst & Co Publishers, 1986, pp. 202, 286. {{ISBN|1-85065-009-8}}.

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

First Nagorno-Karabakh War

{{See also|Battle of Shusha (1992)}}The town and hinterland of Lachin was the location of severe fighting during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1990–1994).{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}}During May 1992, an Armenian offensive captured the town; as a result, Lachin became a strategic link between Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh region -the Lachin corridor.{{R|name=Cornell|pages=8, 10, 31}} The disfigured bodies of Armenian civilians killed by Azerbaijani soldiers in 1992 were discovered near Lachin on May 28, 1993. The civilians had attempted to flee Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia and were reportedly massacred by the Grey Wolves.WEB, Nagorno Karabakh,www.hrw.org/reports/1994/WR94/Helsinki-03.htm, HRW, Following the town’s capture by Armenian forces, it was looted and burned.NEWS, Steele, Jonathan, Eyewitness: Armenia’s looters follow its troops into Azerbaijan - Tit-for-tat pillage of deserted Lachin succeeds a war that may not yet be over, The Guardian, 25 May 1992, The mainly Azerbaijani population fled and became internally displaced people. British reporters witnessed looting and burning in Lachin, with trucks and cars piled high with looted furniture and household utensils moving to Armenia, and big convoys blocking the road. Looters took everything of value, including livestock, before setting houses on fire. An Armenian sergeant said to the British journalists that the looting was done because the Azerbaijanis had previously pillaged 23 villages. Among the Armenian looters there also were civilians from Stepanakert, which had been shelled by the Azerbaijanis for eight months and had been without power and water for several weeks.NEWS, Seely, Robert, Armenian looters burn down village, The Times, 25 May 1992, 8, A Canadian journalist who visited the town a few months later noted that “the destruction is absolute. No building, no home, no school, not a bus shelter has been left unscarred”.NEWS, Brock, Daniel, Europe’s forgotten war,archive.macleans.ca/article/1993/8/30/europes-forgotten-war, 26 October 2021, Maclean’s, 30 August 1993, A Kurdish nationalist organization in the area, the “Caucasian Kurdistan Freedom Movement”, proclaimed the establishment of the Kurdish Republic of Lachin, after Armenian troops entered the town. However, most of the local Kurdish population had by then fled, and the attempt quickly proved abortive.Lachin was then transferred to be administrated by the Republic of Artsakh as part of its Kashatagh Province. Artsakh repopulated the city by attracting ethnic Armenians from Armenia and Lebanon.WEB, Yuri, Vendik,www.bbc.com/russian/features-54930281, Армяне оставляют Лачин, несмотря на конец войны в Карабахе и прибытие российских миротворцев, 17 November 2020, 1 December 2020, BBC Russian Service, ru, According to journalist Onnik Krikorian, although the official statistics claimed that the number of Armenian residents in Lachin was 2200, the actual figure was around fifty per cent less. While some settlers were refugees from Azerbaijan and Karabakh, as well as from the diaspora, Krikorian wrote that most were poor families from Armenia, attracted by the promise of land, livestock and social benefits that averaged 4,000 Armenian drams (about ten US dollars) per child. Krikorian also wrote that the Armenian population was leaving the region due to decreased government funding and the uncertainty of region’s status.NEWS, Krikorian, Onnik, Lachin: The Emptying Lands,iwpr.net/global-voices/lachin-emptying-lands, 9 November 2021, IWPR, 29 September 2006, en, The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs had noted that “Lachin has been treated as a separate case in previous negotiations.” The Lachin corridor and the Kalbajar district had been at the centre of Armenian demands during the Nagorno-Karabakh peace talks with Azerbaijan.WEB,www.countrywatch.com/facts/facts_default.aspx?type=text&topic=SEANA,www.countrywatch.com/facts/facts_default.aspx?type=text&topic=SEANA," title="web.archive.org/web/20070928010615www.countrywatch.com/facts/facts_default.aspx?type=text&topic=SEANA,">web.archive.org/web/20070928010615www.countrywatch.com/facts/facts_default.aspx?type=text&topic=SEANA, dead, Home Page - CountryWatch, September 28, 2007, www.countrywatch.com, On 16 June 2015 the European Court of Human Rights passed a judgement in the case of Chiragov and Others v. Armenia, which concerned the complaints by six Azerbaijani ethnically-Kurdish refugees that they were unable to return to their homes and property in the district of Lachin, in Azerbaijan, from where they had been forced to flee in 1992 during the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. The Court confirmed that Armenia exercised effective control over Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding territories and thus had de facto jurisdiction over the district of Lachin. The Court also found that the denial by the Armenian government of access to the applicants’ homes constituted an unjustified interference with their right to respect for their private and family lives as well as their homes.WEB, Press release issued by the Registrar of the Court, Azerbaijani refugees’ rights violated by lack of access to their property located in district controlled by Armenia,hudoc.echr.coe.int/webservices/content/pdf/003-5110589-6301087, European Court of Human Rights, 21 June 2015,

2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war

Following the ceasefire agreement that ended the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, the Lachin District was returned to Azerbaijan on 1 December.WEB, 1 December 2020, Азербайджан взял под контроль Лачин спустя 28 лет,www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/357087/, 1 December 2020, Caucasian Knot, ru, Today, Russian peacekeepers continue to secure safe passage through the Lachin corridor.WEB, 1 December 2020, Rusiya MüdafiÉ™ Nazirliyi: Laçın dÉ™hlizindÉ™ hÉ™rÉ™kÉ™tÉ™ sülhmÉ™ramlılar nÉ™zarÉ™t edir,www.bbc.com/azeri/live/azerbaijan-54577122?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5fc5d44065be0302b81c5174%26Rusiya%20M%C3%BCdafi%C9%99%20Nazirliyi%3A%20La%C3%A7%C4%B1n%20d%C9%99hlizind%C9%99%20h%C9%99r%C9%99k%C9%99t%C9%99%20s%C3%BClhm%C9%99raml%C4%B1lar%20n%C9%99zar%C9%99t%20edir%262020-12-01T05%3A31%3A34.947Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:04ce8c76-c12d-4840-b332-7e7b989d48a5&pinned_post_asset_id=5fc5d44065be0302b81c5174&pinned_post_type=share, 1 December 2020, BBC Azerbaijani Service, az, However, the unclear and unstable situation in the region have caused many Armenians to evacuate from the city.WEB, 30 November 2020, Azerbaijani troops enter Lachin district in Nagorno-Karabakh,tass.com/world/1229757, 1 December 2020, TASS, The Artsakh mayor of Lachin, Narek Aleksanyan, first called on the ethnic Armenian population of the town to evacuate. However, later Aleksanyan stated that the agreement had been changed and that Lachin, Sus, and Zabukh which are located inside the Lachin corridor would not be handed over to Azerbaijan, urging the Armenian population to stay in their homes. Despite Aleksanyan’s calls, the vast majority of Armenians in Lachin, as well as Lebanese-Armenians in Zabukh fled the region.WEB, Van Novikov, Stepan Kocharyan, Berdzor mayor presents details amid vague situation,armenpress.am/eng/news/1036360/D090D180D0BCD0B5D0BDD0BFD180D0B5D181D181, December 1, 2020, Armenpress, armenpress.am, November 16, 2021, Azerbaijani MP (:az:Zahid Oruc|Zahid Oruj), the chairman of the Center for Social Research, which is linked to the Azerbaijani government, denied that the Lachin District would not be handed over in its entirety.WEB,www.bbc.com/azeri/azerbaijan-55136684, Laçın ÅŸÉ™hÉ™ri ermÉ™nilÉ™rdÉ™mi qalır? ErmÉ™nilÉ™rÉ™ belÉ™ deyilib, amma onlar ÅŸÉ™hÉ™ri tÉ™rk edir, 30 November 2020, 1 December 2020, BBC Azerbaijani Service, az, On December 1, Azerbaijani forces, with tanks and a column of trucks, entered the district,WEB,www.rferl.org/a/azerbaijani-forces-enter-third-district-under-nagorno-karabakh-truce/30977052.html, Azerbaijani Forces Enter Third District Under Nagorno-Karabakh Truce, en, 1 December 2020, RFERL.org, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the Azerbaijani MoD released footage from the Lachin district.WEB,www.bbc.com/azeri/live/azerbaijan-54577122?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5fc5de8165be0302b81c5176%26Az%C9%99rbaycan%20M%C3%BCdafi%C9%99%20Nazirliyi%20La%C3%A7%C4%B1nda%20d%C3%B6vl%C9%99t%20bayra%C4%9F%C4%B1n%C4%B1n%20as%C4%B1lmas%C4%B1%20bar%C9%99d%C9%99%20video%20yay%C4%B1b%262020-12-01T06%3A12%3A11.913Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:7dd33a7e-7937-4723-b44a-b50d644a41a1&pinned_post_asset_id=5fc5de8165be0302b81c5176&pinned_post_type=share, AzÉ™rbaycan MüdafiÉ™ Nazirliyi Laçında dövlÉ™t bayrağının asılması barÉ™dÉ™ video yayıb, 1 December 2020, 1 December 2020, BBC Azerbaijani Service, az, On December 3, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence released video footage from the town of Lachin.WEB,www.facebook.com/1085101198213262/posts/3774689835921038/?d=n, Laçın ÅŸÉ™hÉ™rinin videogörüntülÉ™ri, Facebook, Following the ceasefire, only around 200 Armenians remained in the Lachin corridor, with 100–120 of them being in Lachin.WEB,hetq.am/hy/article/127779, Õ“Õ¸Ö„Ö€Õ¡Õ©Õ«Õ¾ Õ°Õ¡ÕµÕ¥Ö€ Õ¤Õ¥Õ¼Ö‡Õ½ Õ¢Õ¶Õ¡Õ¯Õ¾Õ¸Ö‚Õ´ Õ¥Õ¶ Õ”Õ¡Õ·Õ¡Õ©Õ¡Õ²Õ¸Ö‚Õ´, բայց Õ¤Õ¡ Õ¼Õ¸Ö‚Õ½Õ¶Õ¥Ö€Õ« Ö„Õ´Õ¡Õ°Õ¡Õ³Õ¸Ö‚ÕµÖ„Õ¸Õ¾ Õ§ ÕºÕ¡ÕµÕ´Õ¡Õ¶Õ¡Õ¾Õ¸Ö€Õ¾Õ¡Õ®, Sara Petrosyan, 22 February 2021, hetq.am, Hetq, 23 February 2021,

Return to Azerbaijan

According to the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, a new corridor was going to be built in the region as the Lachin corridor passes through the city of Lachin, and when this corridor is ready, the city will be returned to the Azerbaijani administration.WEB, 1 December 2020, Ä°lham Əliyev: “Yeni dÉ™hliz hazır olandan sonra Laçın ÅŸÉ™hÉ™ri bizÉ™ qaytarılacaq”,www.bbc.com/azeri/live/azerbaijan-54577122?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5fc6011f65be0302b81c5196%26%C4%B0lham%20%C6%8Fliyev%3A%20%22Yeni%20d%C9%99hliz%20haz%C4%B1r%20olandan%20sonra%20La%C3%A7%C4%B1n%20%C5%9F%C9%99h%C9%99ri%20biz%C9%99%20qaytar%C4%B1lacaq%22%262020-12-01T08%3A41%3A47.987Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:2b98175b-1f04-466c-b371-e8b43196ccbb&pinned_post_asset_id=5fc6011f65be0302b81c5196&pinned_post_type=share, 4 December 2020, BBC Azerbaijani Service, az, In August 2022, Azerbaijan built its part of the road around Lachin, while Armenia did not yet. On 2 August, the local Armenian authorities reported that the Azerbaijani side had conveyed to them a demand to organise communication with Armenia along a different route, bypassing the existing one.Обострение в Нагорном Карабахе: что происходит и почему это важно Following the renewed clashes around Lachin, Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, Armen Grigoryan, stated that Azerbaijan’s demand for the Lachin corridor was unlawful, since the Armenian side has not yet agreed to any plan for the construction of a new road. Azerbaijan accused Armenia of delaying the construction of its part of the road, while the part for which Azerbaijan was responsible had already been built. On 4 August, the Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure of Armenia, Gnel Sanosyan, stated that the construction of an alternative road to Lachin was actively underway and would be completed the spring of 2023.Новая война в Карабахе? Ð’ Баку и Ереване винят друг друга и оглядываются на Москву On 5 August, local Armenian authorities told the residents of Lachin, as well as Zabukh and Sus, to leave their homes by 25 August, after which the towns would be handed over to Azerbaijan.WEB, 2022-08-05, Lachin residents given 20 days to leave homes ahead of Azerbaijan handover,oc-media.org/lachin-residents-given-20-days-to-leave-homes-ahead-of-azerbaijan-handover/, 2022-08-07, OC Media, en-US, Айк Ханумян предупредил жителей Ахавно и Бердзора, что до 25 августа они должны покинуть свои дома – главы общин Some of the Armenian inhabitants burned their houses down.WEB, Узел, Кавказский, Азербайджанские пожарные прибыли в Лачин после поджогов армянами своих домов,www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/380349/, 2022-08-25, Кавказский Узел, As of 26 August, Azerbaijan regained control of the town and the villages Sus and Zabukh in the Lachin corridor.WEB, 26 August 2022, Azerbaijani forces are stationed in Lachin, Karabakh: President Aliyev,www.dailysabah.com/politics/diplomacy/azerbaijani-forces-are-stationed-in-lachin-karabakh-president-aliyev, 2022-08-26, Daily Sabah, en-US, In May 2024, satellite imagery showed that the Armenian church of St. Ascension had been completely demolished by the Azerbaijani government, with no trace of it left.WEB, Ghazanchyan, Siranush, Azerbaijanis completely destroy Holy Ascension Church in Berdzor,en.armradio.am/2024/05/11/azerbaijanis-completely-destroy-st-ascension-church-in-berdzor/, Public Radio of Armenia, Public Radio of Armenia, 12 May 2024,

Geography

The town is scenically built on the side of a mountain on the left bank of the river Hakari.Лачин, Great Soviet Encyclopedia

Economy and culture

{{update section|date=November 2023}}As of 2015, the population is mainly engaged in different state institutions. The town has a municipal building, a regional hospital, four dental clinics, two secondary schools, the Berdzor Music School and the Berdzor Art and Sports School, and a kindergarten.WEB,artsakhlib.am/en/2018/06/06/%D5%BF%D5%A5%D5%B2%D5%A5%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%82-%D5%AC%D5%B2%D5%B0-%D5%BE%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%B9%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%AE%D6%84%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AB%D5%B6-%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%A1%D5%BE%D5%B8/, Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015), Hakob Ghahramanyan,

Demographics {| class“wikitable”

! Year! Population! Ethnic groups! Source|1907|145|Mostly Tatars (later known as Azerbaijanis)Caucasian CalendarHTTPS://WWW.PRLIB.RU/ITEM/417314 PUBLISHER=TIPOGRAFIYA KANTSELYARII YE.I.V. NA KAVKAZE, KAZENNY DOM EDITION=65TH PAGES=170 TRANS-TITLE=CAUCASIAN CALENDAR FOR 1910 ARCHIVE-DATE=15 MARCH 2022, | 1914| 124| Mostly Tatars| Caucasian Calendar| 1926| 435| 37.7% Turks (Azerbaijanis), 25.3% Kurds, 15.2% Armenians, 13.1% RussiansAUTHOR=WEBSITE=WWW.ETHNO-KAVKAZ.NAROD.RU, | 1939| 1,063| 80.7% Azerbaijani, 11.6% Armenians, 6.4% RussiansWEBSITE=WWW.ETHNO-KAVKAZ.NAROD.RU, | 1959| 2,329| 94.5% Azerbaijani, 4.3% Armenians 1% RussiansWEBSITE=WWW.ETHNO-KAVKAZ.NAROD.RU, | 1970| 4,990| 95% Azerbaijani, 2.7% Russians & Ukrainians, 1.1% ArmeniansWEBSITE=WWW.ETHNO-KAVKAZ.NAROD.RU, | 1979| 6,073| 99.1% AzerbaijaniWEBSITE=WWW.ETHNO-KAVKAZ.NAROD.RU, | 1989| 7,829|WEBSITE=DEMOSCOPE.RU, | 2005| 2,190| ~100% ArmenianACCESS-DATE=APRIL 26, 2011 ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20110302100506/HTTP://CENSUS.STAT-NKR.AM/NKR/1-1.PDF, dead, | 2015| 1,900| ~100% ArmenianWEBSITE=STAT-NKR.AMPAGE=13, 1 January 2015, | 2021| 100–120| ~100% Armenian|

Twin cities

Lachin is twinned with:

• {{Flagicon|United States}} Highland, California (only as Berdzor of the former Republic of Artsakh)“Azerbaijan Protests California Town’s Recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh.” RIA Novosti. December 6, 2013.

Gallery

File:Berdzor058.JPG|View of the townFile:Berdzor057.JPG|Former WW2 memorial turned into Nagorno-Karabakh conflict memorialFile:Berdzor062.JPG|Playground in the townFile:Berdzor046.JPG|View of part of LachinFile:Berdzor001.JPG|Road in LachinFile:Berdzor049.JPG|Building of Armenian mobile operator companyFile:Սուրբ Հարություն եկեղեցի, Բերձոր - Holy Resurrection Church, Berdzor.jpg|Holy Ascension Church in Berdzor, opened in 1998

References

Notes

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Bibliography

• Е. Ðœ. Поспелов (Ye. M. Pospelov). “Имена городов: вчера и сегодня (1917–1992). Топонимический словарь.” (City Names: Yesterday and Today (1917–1992). Toponymic Dictionary.” Москва, “Русские словари”, 1993.

External links

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• oneworld.blogsome.com/2006/09/04/lachin-2000-03-gallery/" title="web.archive.org/web/20061027173537oneworld.blogsome.com/2006/09/04/lachin-2000-03-gallery/">Pictures of Lachin
• Onnik Krikorian, Armenia’s Strategic Lachin Corridor Confronts a Demographic Crisis, eurasianet.org, Sep 15, 2006.
• More information about Lachin from Armeniapedia.com
• WEB,www.travel-images.com/az-lachin.html, Lachin, 2007-02-04, Azerb.com,
• WEB,www.armenianhistory.info/artsakh3.htm, History of Artsakh (Part 3), May 27, 2008,www.armenianhistory.info/artsakh3.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20090901234226www.armenianhistory.info/artsakh3.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20090901234226www.armenianhistory.info/artsakh3.htm, September 1, 2009, dead,
• {{GEOnet2|32FA881505853774E0440003BA962ED3|Lachin (as Laçın)}}

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