Hadrut - Southern Gate of Karabakh

Hadrut is located in the Hadrut-Gozluchay valley, near Mount Argunesh. There are ancient cultural monuments here, although the exact time of the settlement's foundation is unknown. The name of the settlement was mentioned in Ottoman sources in 1727 as the village of Hadrut in the Dizag district. During the tsarist era, the village of Hadrut was part of the Jebrail district of the Yelizavetpol province. In 1923, the village of #hadrut was included in the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous #Region of the #Azerbaijan #SSR, and in 1930 it was chosen as the administrative center of the newly created #Dizag district. In 1939, this district was named Hadrut district after the name of its center. In 1963, Hadrut received the status of an urban-type settlement. According to the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan No. 279-XII dated November 26, 1991, the NKAO (Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region) was abolished and the Khojavend region was formed on the basis of the Martuni and Hadrut regions. On October 2, 1992, during the First #Karabakh War, the #Armenian armed forces #occupied Hadrut.

As a result of the occupation of the Hadrut region by the Armenian armed forces, Azerbaijan suffered serious damage. 2,239 Azerbaijanis, who had lived in this territory since ancient times, were displaced from their native places. As a result of military aggression, 679 square kilometers of the most fertile lands of our republic (Hadrut region) were occupied. The Hadrut region occupied by Armenia included; 1 settlement, 41 villages, 31 village councils, more than 1000 industrial and agricultural facilities, 12 preschool institutions, 28 comprehensive schools, 1 vocational school, 1 school with seven-year education, 11 cultural centers, 22 clubs, a radio reception room, 30 stores selling consumer goods, 40 retail shopping centers, 23 savings banks, 8,644 thousand stores with manufactured goods, 63 retail enterprises, 150 trucks, 82 combines, 84 automatic telephone exchanges, 16 post-telephone stations, 8 football fields, 45 volleyball courts, an outpatient clinic for 1,388 people, 1 boarding house for 485 people, 1 sanatorium for 250 people, a rest home for 275 people, a sanatorium and epidemiological station. The occupation also damaged a 110 km highway, 20 bridges, 5,000 km of water, 3,000 km of power lines, distilleries, grape processing plants, local industrial complexes, an agro-industrial association, an agricultural repair station, communications, motor transport, catering establishments, service workshops, etc.

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