HOME FOR FAMILIES OF KILLED SOLDIERS

Azat Artsakh – Nagorno Karabakh Republic [NKR]
17 June 05

The city of Stepanakert has never been this beautiful, even in the
best years of Soviet totalitarianism. And only a decade has passed
after the times of bombing and air raids of Azeris when one would come
across ruins at every step in the city. Today no traces of these times
have been left. What is more, all the new buildings in the city are
distinguished by high quality and design. Among these are the elite
blocks of flats No 16 and 18 on Azatamartikneri Street, operated
recently and put out for sale. At the NKR Ministry of Territorial
Management and Development of Infrastructures we were informed that
all the 28 apartments and 20 plots of land had been sold out. The
total sum from the sale of flats is 442 million 247 thousand drams
which was returned to the NKR State Budget from which the construction
had been funded. (This year the sum provided from the state budget for
construction is 3900 million drams against 2385 million in 2004.
Besides the mentioned sum, in the current year, another 877 million
drams has been provided for construction in the framework of the
programme of re-settlement and about 250 million for the same aim was
provided to the Ministry of Social Security.) By the instruction of
the NKR president the sum from the sale of these flats and plots is
spent on the construction of another block of 45 flats in Tumanian
Street which is already being built. All the flats will be provided
free of charge to families of killed azatamartiks.

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17-06-2005