Sargis Kharazyan

Gnishik: From Abandoned to Being Populated

Gnishik is disrupting the chain of abandoned villages in Vayots Dzor. While the village doesn't currently have new residents, the groundwork is in place.

November 21/2023

The permanent resident of the temporary village

Emma Sargsyan and her 52-year-old son live permanently in Sevazhayr, a village cut off from the world. During the summer, this village in Vayots Dzor is home to 25 families, but with the coming of the wintry weather, they go back to Shatin, taking their cattle with them.

October 31/2023

With the Threads of Memory: from Norapat to Shosh

Every single day, the threads of memory weave a path back to Shosh, a village in Nagorno-Karabakh, where Karine Aghasyan was forced to leave behind the most precious thing imaginable: her husband's grave.

April 6/2024

The Midwife-Doll Maker

Larisa's profession and craft combined make her a kind of doll midwife. Displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh, she has found a new home in Yerevan.

May 8/2024

The Uncertain Future of Shurnukh Residents, Caught Between Their Lost and Newly Received Homes

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan handed over the keys to the newly built houses in Shurnukh to the residents two years and seven months later than initially planned.

June 29/2024

The Summer Village: Pukhrut

Decades later, descendants of Pukhrut former residents occasionally return to their ancestral village. For now, however, Pukhrut is a pleasant seasonal destination rather than a permanent home.

November 21/2024

The Bell and the Cotton: Opposites in Harmony

Aram Melkonyan and Knar Hovsepyan are the last teachers of Mozrov village, located in Vayots Dzor.

July 10/2023

People of Hermon from Artsakh

Currently, about 2,000 Artsakh residents are actively looking for new places of residence within Vayots Dzor.

December 4/2023

The Power of Small Steps to Cope with Great Loss

After being forced to leave their home in Karmir Shuka, Nagorno-Karabakh, Anush Grigoryan and her family resettled in Movses, a border village in Tavush Province.

May 1/2024

The uncertain future of the forgotten villages of Vayots Dzor

The blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh prompted us to initiate research on Armenian villages with small populations.

January 11/2024

The Village of Locked Houses on the Edge of the Tailings Dam: Chapni

In Chapni, the trend is different. Since 2019, Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Combine has been providing financial support to Chapni residents due to the presence of the Artsvanik tailings dam in the village.

October 29/2024

The border-guarding family is at risk of losing their home

Hrach Antonyan's family, with three generations, lives a few hundred meters away from the Nakhichevan border in the Nor Aznaberd village of Vayots Dzor. The ex-serviceman, who was injured during the 44-day war and became disabled, does not know how to repay the loan and support his family with a 69,000 AMD disability pension.

May 15/2023

There is no alternative; we need to make a Knight's move

The Tovmasyan family of four has made their home in Tavush village, located in Tavush Province.

April 2/2024

The flavor and aroma of Nagorno-Karabakh in the "Bokhcha" of Armenia

“We want to recreate everything we had back home, here in Armenia,” says Heghush Tarkhanyan.

May 3/2024

"I want to sell my kidney": Hetq Media Factory received this email in late April while we were still working on this article. When we contacted the sender, a man in his 40s, we learned that he had been trying to find a buyer for his kidney to support his large family for several weeks.

The Prescription of Death for the Living: Tracing the Impact of the Unenforced Cadaver Transplantation Law

May 31/2024

The Last Bell of the Village: Tavrus

Sixth-grader Vache is one of the 45 residents of Tavrus. He has decided to become the village head, build a new school, raise a large Armenian flag on it, and bring prosperity to the village… If, of course, a population remains in Tavrus and the village does not become just a name on the map.

November 12/2024