Agdam: what is left of the city

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November 28, 2020 13:20

The city of Agdam, which until the early 1990s was famous for the products of the brandy factory and the bread museum, was returned to Azerbaijan in a ruined state; not a single surviving building remained in it. The city, where in 1979, according to the population census, more than 23,000 people lived, is now practically deserted; on the streets you can find only the military, police officers, sappers and repairmen. See photos made by Aziz Karimov, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent, who visited Agdam on November 24, 2020.

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