Refugees from Gadrut tell about living conditions in Nagorno-Karabakh

During the war, refugee families lost all their property; authorities are partially compensating their rental expenses, former residents of the city of the Gadrut District have informed. A total of 1365 refugee families from the Gadrut District now live in Nagorno-Karabakh.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the Gadrut townspeople, who moved to Stepanakert after their hometown had come under Azerbaijan's control, complained about disorder, problems with work and high prices for rented housing. Armenian authorities have promised them new social support measures.

"On October 10, Azerbaijani militaries entered Gadrut; hostilities began; and already on October 12, the city surrendered," said Gagik Avanesyan, a participant in the first Karabakh War and a Gadrut resident.

From the first days of the war, the city was heavily shelled, he has noted. His family, like other Gadrut residents, lost all the property.

After the war, the family of Lyudmila Andreeva, a nurse and a refugee from the Gadrut District, when coming from Armenia decided to settle in Stepanakert. However, due to high rental fees, they decided to find housing in one of the villages.

As a result of the autumn war of 2020, up to 40,000 residents of Karabakh became forced migrants, the Ministry of Social Security has informed.

The "Caucasian Knot" has also reported that by this April Karabakh residents had applied about 6943 apartments and private houses, completely destroyed or damaged during the shelling in the fall of 2020.