Azat Artsakh Tert, Nagorno Karabakh Republic NKR
Dec 15 2007
Let’s prevent the village from devastation
By Laura Grigorian
The village of Sardarashen is situated in a distance of 25 kms
from the town of Stepanakert. There is an interesting story obout
this village’s name. Long ago a young man Sardar by name lived there.
The villages often organized competitions and this young man always
won the other men of his age with his power. That’s why everybody who
wanted to say something about this village, they usually said
Sardar’s village.
The village of Sardarashen has a very important strategic
location and it was very useful during the Artsakh war.
Sardarashen isn’t a large village: only 150 men live here but
there were more than 300 of them in 1988. These people are labourous
but only some of them live well.There are only 20 pupils studying in
the village school and nobody went to the first class this year.
The head of the village Armen Simonian sais: "Generally, the
youth don’t want to live in village".Ther are many difficulties in
the village, there is no gas here and the road connecting the village
with the capital is awful, especially when the weather is bad. And
there is only one old bus which goes to the capital once in aweek.
There’s a serios water problem especially now when "Tkoghny"
spring dried out. The head of this village sais that it’s possible to
solve the water problem but much money is necessary. He sais that
there is a developping programm but it’s senceless. The village’s
future is the youth who avoid the village. The village is
devastating.
In agriculture people hope for the rain on which the growing of
their cucumbers, tomatoes and other vegetables depend on. People
don’t have great land plots because it’s situated on a mountain. The
cultivated lands are in a distance of 8 kms from the village of
Sardarashen that’s why only a little part of them was cultivated. The
Government assisted the villagers with some kinds of seeds but they
didn’t manage to cultivate the lands because of the lack of the
technologies and the weather conditions.
There is no culture here. The village library bacame just a place
where some men gather to chat and to play different games.