Umudlu, Nagorno-Karabakh

Umudlu (Armenian: Ումութլու, romanized: Umutlu) or Aknaberd (Armenian: Ակնաբերդ, also Akanaberd Ականաբերդ, and Akana Ականա) is a village de facto in the Shahumyan Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, de jure in the Tartar District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an Azerbaijani-majority population prior to their exodus during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.[2]

For other places with the same name, see Umudlu.
Umudlu / Aknaberd
Ումութլու / Ակնաբերդ
Umudlu / Aknaberd
Umudlu / Aknaberd
Coordinates: 40°11′42″N 46°35′25″E
Country (de facto) Artsakh
 • ProvinceShahumyan
Country (de jure) Azerbaijan
 • DistrictTartar
Population
 (2015)[1]
 • Total586
Time zoneUTC+4 (AMT)

History

During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Mardakert District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, and was incorporated into the Shahumyan Province of the Republic of Artsakh after the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

Economy and culture

The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a house of culture, a secondary school, a kindergarten, five shops, and a medical centre.[1]

Demographics

According to the "Statistical Data on the Population of the Transcaucasian Territory, Extracted from Family Lists of 1886"[lower-alpha 1], the village had 241 Tatar (Azerbaijani) inhabitants, with 52 belonging to the upper Muslim class.[3] According to the Caucasus Calendar of 1912, the village had 362 Tatar inhabitants.[4] According to the 1921 census of the Azerbaijan SSR, the village had 304 Azerbaijani inhabitants.[5] The village also had an Azerbaijani-majority population in 1991.[6] The entire population of the village was evacuated in February 1992, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.[7] The village was settled by Armenians after the war.

The village has an ethnic Armenian-majority population, had 482 inhabitants in 2005,[8] and 586 inhabitants in 2015.[1]

References
  1. Russian: Свода статистических данных о населении Закавказского края, извлеченных из посемейных списков 1886 года
  1. Hakob Ghahramanyan. "Directory of socio-economic characteristics of NKR administrative-territorial units (2015)".
  2. Андрей Зубов. "Андрей Зубов. Карабах: Мир и Война". drugoivzgliad.com.
  3. Свод статистических данных о населении Закавказского края, извлеченных из посемейных списков 1886 г.. — Тф., 1893. — p. 244.
  4. Caucasian Calendar 1912, p. 212.
  5. "Данные переписи населения АзССР 1921 года по Джрабердскому району". karabagh.am (in Russian). Archived from the original on 6 April 2019.
  6. "ТЕРРОРИСТЫ ПИРАТСТВУЮТ". sumgait.info (in Russian). Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  7. "Bu günə olan İşğal tariximizdən: Ağdərə, Çərəkdar, Narınclar, Umudlu..." karabachaserbaidschan.wordpress.com. 7 July 2020.
  8. Population of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (2005)
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