ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Azat Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Kasum-Ismayilov (District) / Azat (Village)

Location

The village lies in a plain extending at an altitude of 255 to 262 metres above sea level, right of the railway of Gandzak-Yevlakh, 13 kilometres east of Gandzak, 25 kilometres north-west of the district centre, and 27 kilometres north-east of Azat (Suluk) Village of Khanlar District.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 314.

Historical Introduction
1948 — 1949 yy․

Between 1948 and 1949, the inhabitants of Azat who had large arable lands in Arani-Azat were forced into cultivating cotton; otherwise, the Azerbaijani authorities threatened them with the confiscation of their farming territories. Soon about 20 local families took up permanent residence in Arani-Azat.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 314.

In the early 1970s, the Armenians of Arani-Azat started gradually abandoning the village, where they had lived and worked for about a quarter of a century. They scattered in different places, mostly returning to Azat and leaving everything in Arani-Azat to the Turks.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 314.

Stripped of the possibility of getting education at national schools, the children of Arani-Azat attended a 7-year Russian school in the neighbouring village of Aran-Mikhailovka.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 314.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Arani-Azat