Fuzuli

Fuzuli Armenian: Varanda, is a city and the capital of the Fuzuli rayon of Azerbaijan. On 23 August 1993, the metropolis fell to Armenian forces throughout the Nagorno-Karabakh warfare and due to the fact that then is administered as part of Hadrut Region of the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh ever seeing that. Due to the continuing battle, it's miles currently an uninhabited ghost metropolis. Once known as Qarabulaq, the village became renamed Karyagino in 1827 to honour Pavel Karyagin, a Russian military hero of the Russo-Persian War. It turned into renamed in 1959, in honour of the 16th-century poet Fuzuli .

During the 1993 Summer Offensives of the Nagorno-Karabakh War, Füzuli become captured by way of Armenian forces and - even though components of the Füzuli rayon have been later retaken - the metropolis itself remains in occupied territory, essentially a ghost metropolis. Iyas Afandiyev — author, Honored Artist of Azerbaijan SSR 1960, People's creator of the Azerbaijan SSR 1979. Seymur Mammadov National Hero of Azerbaijan.