What is Lachin corridor?
'''Lachin corridor''' was a six-kilometer mountain corridor in [[Azerbaijan]] that connected [[Armenia]] and the self-proclaimed [[Republic of Artsakh]].<ref>Uhlig M.A. ''The Karabakh war'' / World Policy Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter, 1993/1994), pp. 47-52 Published by: Duke University Press<br> ''Since May 1992, however, it has taken on grim strategic importance as the «Lachin Corridor» — a key military link between Armenia and the mountain territory of Nagorno- Karabakh, where ethnic war has raged since that Armenian-dominated enclave declared its desire to secede from Turkish-speaking Azerbaijan in 1988. At the now-deserted border town of Lachin, which gives the corridor its name, the distance between Armenia and Nagorno- Karabakh is a mere six kilometer''</ref> The territory of the corridor today consists of three settlements: the villages of Zabukh, Sus and the city of Lachin. After the [[First Nagorno-Karabakh War]] in 1994, the area was occupied by the [[Nagorno-Karabakh Republic]]. Following the [[2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war]] it was controlled by Russian peacekeepers. In 2023, Armenia took control of Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh. Almost all the Armenians in Artsakh left through the Lachin corridor to Armenia. == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Nagorno-Karabakh]]