Atabek :: ARMENIAN LOCATIONS

3 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Shamkhor (District) / Atabek (Village)

Location

The village is situated 19 kilometres south-west of the district centre, at an altitude of 1,330 to 1,450 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 449.

Historical Introduction
1890 y․

By 1890 Atabek had already been stripped of its Armenian population. S. Kamalian, who is the only topographer to have visited it, writes, “South of the station, the dim shapes of Mount Gharamoghli and the fields of Chardakhlu could be seen. The former is adjoined by the mountain chain of Atabek with a village site and the walls of a demolished church.”

Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, pp. 1-2.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 449.

Population

In the early Soviet years, the site of the abandoned Armenian village provided a place of living for some Armenians from the adjacent villages, this marking revival and prosperity for it.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 450.

1976 y․

In 1976 the local Armenians, who had a small number of Azerbaijani neighbours, amounted to 470.

Soviet Azerbaijanian Encyclopedia, vol. 1, Baku, 1976, p. 457.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 450.

Ten years later, however, a double reduction could be observed in the former’s number.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 450.

1988 — 1989 yy․

Atabek was totally stripped of its Armenian population during the deportation of 1988 to 1989.