Agdam: In Search of Home

In 1992, in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia and Azerbaijan went to war over Azerbaijan's autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The result was the occupation by Armenia of this region plus a far larger series of other Azerbaijani lands. Many of the villages and towns were abandoned, their buildings plundered as easy sources of construction materials. Of the resultant ghost cities, Agdam was especially striking, being sometimes nicknamed the Hiroshima of the Caucasus due to the massive scale of the ruins. In 2020, after the 2nd Karabakh War, Agdam was amongst the places restored to Azerbaijani control.
Houses can be rebuilt, roads can be repaved, and nature always manages to revive itself. But this all takes time. For hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijani families whose lives were changed by war, that time is ticking by painfully slowly as infrastructure and mine clearance takes a lot of preparation.
Tamam Gurbanova, was one of so many people forced to leave her life behind in the early 1990's during the First Karabakh War. After almost 30 years, she returns to Agdam to witness for herself the sheer devastation that remains. She soon discovers that the rubble of her hometown is so chaotic that it’s hard to match what she sees with any of her happy pre-war memories.
Special thanks to Seadet Memmedova for sharing this story with us.
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[@ir.talent6819]

it's pity... i hope one day all wars going to be end.......

[@HomelessPelican]

is it dangerous to go there ?