Lacin

Lachin or Berdzor is a city across the world identified de jure as part of Azerbaijan, but currently de facto managed by using the unrecognized Artsakh. Since 1992 the place has been governed by using Artsakh, which has renamed the town Berdzor, and acts as the capital of Kashatagh Region. The government of Azerbaijan considers it to be the regional center of its Lachin Rayon. The town and its surrounding location serve as the strategic Lachin hall connecting the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic with Armenia. It was at first referred to as Abdalyar or Abdallyar. It was granted metropolis repute in 1923 and renamed Lachin in 1926.

In the early 1920s, Vladimir Lenin's letter to Narimanov "had implied that Lachin turned into to be blanketed in Azerbaijan, however the authorities in Baku and Yerevan had been given guarantees that have been unavoidably contradictory." The city of Lachin on July 7, 1923 became the administrative center of Kurdistansky Uyezd, frequently referred to as Red Kurdistan, earlier than it changed into moved to Shusha. It was dissolved on April 8, 1929: Kurdish colleges and newspapers have been closed.