11 Facts About Stepanakert

At the time of the formation of the NKAO, Stepanakert was a dilapidated settlement, where the number of surviving buildings barely reached 10 to 15.

In 1960, the ensemble of the central square of Stepanakert was built with the building of the regional committee .

Stepanakert served as Nagorno-Karabakh's main economic hub, and by the mid-1980s there were nineteen factories in operation in the city, including an electrical and asphalt plant.

Stepanakert was again re-elected to a third term on 19 July 2017.

Stepanakert is served by the nearby Stepanakert Airport, north of the city near the village of Ivanyan.

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Stepanakert used to be connected through a railway line with the Yevlakh station on the Baku-Tbilisi railway.

Stepanakert is home to many large industrial firms, including Stepanakert Brandy Factory, Artsakh Berry food products and Artsakh Footwear Factory.

In 1967, the monumental complex of Stepanakert known as We Are Our Mountains was erected to the north of Stepanakert, It is widely regarded as a symbol of the Armenian heritage of the historic Artsakh.

Stepanakert is home to the Mesrop Mashtots Republican Library opened in 1924, Artsakh History Museum opened in 1939, Hovhannes Tumanyan Children's Library opened in 1947, Stepanakert National Gallery opened in 1982, and the Memorial Museum of the Martyred Liberators opened in 2002.

Artsakh State Museum based in Stepanakert, has an important collection of ancient artifacts and Christian manuscripts.

Many new schools in Stepanakert were opened during the last decade with the help of the Armenian diaspora.