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'''Lachin''' ({{lang-az|Laçın}} {{small|{{Audio|Az-Lachin.ogg|(listen)|help=no}}}}, literally "hawk", {{lang-hy|Բերձոր|Berdzor}}) is a town which is the '']'' centre of the ] of ], '']'' under the occupation of the self-proclaimed ] since 1992 as part of its ].<ref>Holding, Nicholas (2006). ''Armenia with Nagorno Karabagh, 2nd: The Bradt Travel Guide''. Guilford, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press, p. 208. {{ISBN|1-84162-163-3}}.</ref> The town and the surrounding region serve as the strategic ], which connects ] with ]. '''Lachin''' ({{lang-az|Laçın}} {{small|{{Audio|Az-Lachin.ogg|(listen)|help=no}}}}, literally "hawk", {{lang-hy|Բերձոր|Berdzor}}) is a town which is the centre of the ] of ]. The town and the surrounding region serve as the strategic ], which connects ] with ].


==History== ==History==

Revision as of 01:46, 1 December 2020

For other places with the same name, see Lachin (disambiguation) and Laçın (disambiguation).

39°38′27″N 46°32′49″E / 39.64083°N 46.54694°E / 39.64083; 46.54694

Place in Azerbaijan
Lachin LaçınԲերձոր • Berdzor
Coat of arms of LachinCoat of arms
Lachin is located in AzerbaijanLachinLachin
Coordinates: Template:Xb_type:city 39°38′27″N 46°32′49″E / 39.64083°N 46.54694°E / 39.64083; 46.54694
Country Azerbaijan
DistrictLachin
Population
 • Total1,900
Time zoneUTC+4 (UTC)

Lachin (Template:Lang-az (listen), literally "hawk", Template:Lang-hy) is a town which is the centre of the Lachin District of Azerbaijan. The town and the surrounding region serve as the strategic Lachin corridor, which connects Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia.

History

The town was formerly known as Abdallar, named after the turkic Abdal tribe, until it was granted town status in 1923 and then renamed Lachin (a Turkic first name meaning hawk) in 1926.

In the early 1920s, Vladimir Lenin's letter to 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." The town of Lachin on 7 July 1923 became the administrative centre of Kurdistansky Uyezd, often known as Red Kurdistan before it was moved to Shusha. It was dissolved on 8 April 1929: Kurdish schools and newspapers were closed.

On 30 May 1930, the Kurdistan Okrug replaced the uyezd. It included the territory of the former Kurdistansky uyezd, as well as Zangilansky District and a part of Dzhebrailsky District. The okrug, like the uyezd before it, was founded to appeal to Kurds beyond Soviet borders in Iran and Turkey, but the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs would ultimately protest this policy due its negative effect on relations with Turkey and Iran. Due to these concerns, the okrug was abolished less than a month after its foundation, on 23 July 1930.

In the late 1930s, Soviet authorities deported most of the local Kurdish population as well as much of the Kurds elsewhere Azerbaijan and Armenia to Kazakhstan.

First Nagorno-Karabakh war

Lachin town and the surrounding rayon were the locations of severe fighting during the First Nagorno-Karabakh war in 1990–1994, and the town has not wholly recovered from the destruction of that war. Lachin has significant importance because of the Lachin corridor, which links Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh. Around 7,800 Azerbaijanis and Kurds became IDPs as a result of forceful deportations during the occupation.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Minsk Group co-chairs noted that "Lachin has been treated as a separate case in previous negotiations." The Lachin corridor and the Kelbajar district have been at the centre of Armenian demands during the Nagorno-Karabakh peace talks with Azerbaijan.

On 16 June 2015 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 jurisdiction over the district of Lachin. The Court 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.

Demographics

Year Population Ethnic groups Source
1926 435 37.7% Turks (now Azerbaijanis), 25.3% Kurds, 15.2% Armenians, 13.1% Russians Soviet census
1939 1,063 80.7% Azerbaijani, 11.6% Armenians, 6.4% Russians Soviet census
1959 2,329 94.5% Azerbaijani, 4.3% Armenians 1% Russians Soviet census
1970 4,990 95% Azerbaijani, 2.7% Russians & Ukrainians, 1.1% Armenians Soviet census
1979 6,073 99.1% Azerbaijani Soviet census
1989 7,829 Soviet census
2005 2,190 ~100% Armenians NKR census
2015 1,900 ~100% Armenians NKR estimate

Terrain

The town is scenically built on the side of a mountain on the left bank of Hakari River.

Twin cities

Lachin is twinned with:

Gallery

  • View of the town View of the town
  • Former WW2 memorial turned into Nagorno-Karabakh conflict memorial Former WW2 memorial turned into Nagorno-Karabakh conflict memorial
  • Playground in the town Playground in the town
  • View of part of Lachin View of part of Lachin
  • Road in Lachin Road in Lachin
  • Building of Armenian mobile operator company Building of Armenian mobile operator company
  • Holy Ascension Church in Berdzor opened in 1998. Holy Ascension Church in Berdzor opened in 1998.

References

Notes

  1. ^ "Urban communities of the NKR" (PDF). stat-nkr.am. National Statistical Service of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. January 1, 2015. p. 13.
  2. "ЛАЧИН". dic.academic.ru.
  3. Pospelov, p. 23
  4. Alexandre Bennigsen and S. Enders Wimbush. Muslims of the Soviet Empire. C. Hurst & Co Publishers, 1986, pp. 202, 286. ISBN 1-85065-009-8.
  5. McDowall, David. A Modern History of the Kurds, 3rd. ed. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004, p. 492.
  6. Catherine Cosman, "Soviet Kurds Face Loss of Their Identity," New York Times, May 13, 1991/June 2, 1991.
  7. (in Russian) Партизаны на поводке.
  8. (in Russian) Russia and the problem of Kurds Archived February 12, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  9. CountryWatch - Interesting Facts Of The World Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  10. 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". European Court of Human Rights. Retrieved June 21, 2015.
  11. "Курдистанский уезд 1926". www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru.
  12. "Лачинский район 1939". www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru.
  13. "Лачинский район 1959". www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru.
  14. "Лачинский район 1970". www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru.
  15. "Лачинский район 1979". www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru.
  16. "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". demoscope.ru.
  17. http://census.stat-nkr.am/nkr/1-1.pdf
  18. "Great Soviet Encyclopedia". yandex.ru.
  19. "Azerbaijan Protests California Town’s Recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh." RIA Novosti. December 6, 2013.

Sources

  • Е. М. 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.

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