The Road To Karabakh 🇦🇲

Summary by Krater

A traveler drives from the snowy Armenian highlands toward Nagorno-Karabakh, visiting abandoned Soviet sites, meeting local residents, and exploring regions marked by recent conflict.

From the video

Answers: What is it like traveling through Armenia toward Nagorno-Karabakh after the recent war?

• Nagorno-Karabakh conflict history
• Abandoned Soviet infrastructure in Armenia
• Geopolitics of the South Caucasus
• Life in post-war Armenian border regions
• Exclaves of Armenia and Azerbaijan
• Lake Sevan landscape and heritage

What it concludes

• Nagorno-Karabakh was placed inside the borders of Azerbaijan by Joseph Stalin despite being 94% ethnically Armenian.
• Decades of tension and de-armenianization led to the Armenia-Azerbaijan war over the territory.
• Post-Soviet economic realities left many regional hotels, resorts, and Soviet-era infrastructure abandoned and neglected.
• Residents in border villages express sadness over the breakdown of neighborly relations between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.