BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 23. President of the
Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev visited the Karkijahan
settlement of the city of Khankendi on December 23, Trend reports.


Elchin Yusubov, the President's Special Representative in the
city of Khankendi and the Aghdara and Khojaly districts, updated
the head of state on the ongoing development work in the
settlement.


Renovation works began in May this year. The settlement
currently comprises 33 apartment buildings and 1,037 individual
houses, of which 247 are uninhabitable and 790 are partially
habitable. Plans include the repair of 40 houses by the end of this
year and 280 houses in 2026. To date, renovation works have been
completed in 30 houses. In the first phase, 30 families, comprising
115 residents, have returned to their ancestral homes after
temporary displacement in other cities and districts.


A number of social infrastructure projects have also been
implemented. In the individual housing area, water, electricity,
and gas lines were inspected, 2 kilometers of underground optical
cable and 510 meters of power lines were installed, street lighting
was ensured, and internal roads were asphalted. Additionally, major
repairs were carried out at the 60-seat No. 1 nursery-kindergarten
and the secondary school designed for 624 students.


President Ilham Aliyev had previously visited the settlement on
October 15, 2023.


Located at an altitude of 1,130 meters above sea level and
covering a total area of 234 hectares, Karkijahan is a settlement
within the administrative boundaries of the city of Khankendi. In
the 1960s, the nationalist Armenian leadership of the former
autonomous oblast removed the settlement’s name from the official
list of populated areas and incorporated it into the city of
Khankendi. Occupied in late 1991, Karkijahan was burned by Armenian
forces in 1992. Before the occupation, 355 families, totaling 1,796
Azerbaijanis, lived in the settlement. Currently, 674 families,
comprising 2,531 residents, are registered. The settlement was
liberated from occupation in 2023 as a result of the anti-terror
operation carried out by the Azerbaijani Army.


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