Tasy Verst ( hy, Տասը Վերստ), Tsaghkadzor ( hy, Ծաղկաձոր; az, Saxkadzor) or Onverst is a village ''

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Shushi Province Shushi Province ( hy, Շուշիի շրջան) is a province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, ''de jure'' part of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The province has 7 communities of which 1 is considered urban and 6 are rural. The town of Shushi ...

of the breakaway

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, ''

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Shusha District Shusha District ( az, Şuşa rayonu) is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the west of the country and belongs to the Karabakh Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Khojaly, Lachin, and Khojavend. Its capit ...

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, in the disputed region of

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Toponymy

The village was renamed from Tsaghkadzor/Saxkadzor to Onverst in 1999 by the Azerbaijani government.

History

During the

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

period, the village was a part of the

of the

Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO), DQMV, hy, Լեռնային Ղարաբաղի Ինքնավար Մարզ, ԼՂԻՄ was an autonomous oblast within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic that was created on July 7, 1923. Its cap ...

Economy and culture

The population is mainly engaged in

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people t ...

and animal husbandry. The village is a part of the community of Yeghtsahogh.

Demographics

The village has an

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-majority population, had 15 inhabitants in 2005, and 4 inhabitants in 2015.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tasy Verst Populated places in Shusha District Populated places in Shushi Province