Turshsu, Nagorno-Karabakh

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Lisagor / Turshsu
Լիսագոր / Turşsu
Lisagor, Nagorno-Karabakh.jpg
Lisagor / Turshsu is located in Republic of Artsakh
Lisagor / Turshsu
Lisagor / Turshsu
Coordinates: 39°41′15″N 46°38′35″E / 39.68750°N 46.64306°E / 39.68750; 46.64306Coordinates: 39°41′15″N 46°38′35″E / 39.68750°N 46.64306°E / 39.68750; 46.64306
Country (de facto) Artsakh
 • ProvinceShushi
Country (de jure) Azerbaijan
 • DistrictShusha
Population
 (2015)[1]
 • Total130
Time zoneUTC+4

Lisagor (Armenian: Լիսագոր) or Turshsu (Azerbaijani: Turşsu) is a village that is, de facto, in the Shushi Province of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh; de jure, it is in the Shusha District of Azerbaijan. The village had an Azerbaijani-majority population before they fled the fighting of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.[2]

History[]

The village was founded in the beginning of the 20th century as the Russian settlement of Lysogor (Russian: Лысогор) in the Shusha Uyezd of the Elisabethpol Governorate in the Russian Empire.[3] In 1914, 36 people lived in the village, mostly Russians.[4]

During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Shusha District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.

Economy and culture[]

The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a house of culture, a secondary school, and a medical centre. The Lisagor branch of the Shushi Children's Music School is also located in the village.[1]

Demographics[]

The village had 88 inhabitants in 2005,[5] and 130 inhabitants in 2015.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
  2. ^ Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
  3. ^ L.G. Guliyeva, F.A.Mamedbeyli, E.A.Geydarova, G.O. Kerimova. (2006). Dictionary of the Russian insular dialect of Azerbaijan (2nd ed.). Baku: Baku State University Publishing House.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ A.A. Elzenger & N.P. Strelamshchuk, ed. (1914). Caucasian Calendar. Tbilisi: Printing house of the Chancellery of the Governor E. I. V. in the Caucasus. p. 153.
  5. ^ "The Results of the 2005 Census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (PDF). National Statistic Service of the Republic of Artsakh.

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