Azerbaijan’s Last Rail Stop Before Nagorno Karabakh Is a Quiet Place, When It Isn’t Getting Hit by Shells · Global Voices
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The following is a version of a partner post written by Ilkin Hasanov that first appeared on the website Chai-Khana.org.
Kocharli railway station in the Terter region of ex-Soviet Azerbaijan has been operating since 1983 and is the very last Azerbaijani station before the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region the country contests with Armenia.
Before the war between Armenians and Azerbaijanis over control of Nagorno Karabakh broke out in 1988, the railway carried passengers and cargo from the national capital, Baku, 250 kilometres away, as far as the last station in Karabakh itself, Khankendi.