ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Novo-Spasovka 4 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Getabek (District) / Novo-Spasovka (Village)

Location

The village is situated in the area of the source of the Khunis, the left tributary of the river Shamkor, 9 kilometres north-east of the district centre, between 1,510 and 1,570 metres of altitude above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 271.

Historical Introduction
1655 y․

The only record to mention its name is the colophon of a Sharaknots copied in 1655: “...The copying of this Sharaknots commenced in my native village of Papajan in Verin Zakam District. At present I am a fugitive living in Khavunis Village, which has a finely-built church named Jukhtak. This Sharaknots was completed there ... by most sinful and worthless scribe Avetis called a priest in name only.”

Colophons of the Armenian Manuscripts of the 17th century, vol. 3. Compiled by Hakobian, V. Yerevan, 1984, p. 691.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 271.

Population
19 c․

About half a century after the village had been stripped of its Armenian inhabitants (‘70s of the 18th century), it was re-populated by some Russian Dukhobors who founded the settlement of Novo-Spaskoye (Novo-Spasovka) in its site (interesting as it is, it was occasionally mentioned by the name of Khunis).

An official statistical source of 1886 mentions both the old and new names of the village, although the former is slightly distorted into ‘Khunush’ (Yelizavetpol Province: A Statistical Survey Based on the Family Lists of Caucasia's Population. Tiflis, 1888, p. 86).
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 271.

1880 y․

In the late 1880s, 39 families left Novo-Spaskoye for the newly-established region of Kars.

Abelov, N. A. A Study of the Economic Conditions of State Peasantry in Yelizavetpol District of Yelizavetpol Province. A reprint from Materials for the Study of the Economic Conditions of State Peasantry in Transcaucasia, vol. 7, Tiflis, 1887, p. 21. Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 271.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Khavunis
Khunis
Novo-Spaskoye

The available scanty statistical data regarding the number of the local population represent the following picture:

Dates	Russian Houses	Russians (Male)	Russians (Female)	Total (Russians)	Notes	Source
1886	31	108	114	222		Yelizavetpol Province: A Statistical Survey Based on the Family Lists of Caucasia's Population. Tiflis, 1888, pp. 86-87; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 271.
1894	30					“Ardzagank,” 1894, No. 104, p. 2; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 271.
1908				232		Caucasian Calendar for 1910, Tiflis, 1909, p. 336; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 271.
1914				598		Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 166; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 271.