Stepanakert
Quick facts
- What it is
- City
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Area
- 29 km² (11 sq mi)
- Population
- 14,740 (2025)
Facts from Wikipedia’s “Stepanakert” page (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Khankendi () is a city in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, legally in Azerbaijan, but was militarily controlled by the Armenian forces as the capital city of the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh (also known as Nagorno-Karabakh Republic). Stepanakert () or The city was about 40,000 ethnic Armenians. The entire Azerbaijani population was driven away from the city during the Nagorno-Karabakh War but now it is populated fully by Azerbaijanis.
Notable natives
- André - Former Armenian singer
- Armen Abaghian - academic
- Vladimir Arzumanyan - Former Armenian singer, winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010
- Don Askarian - Former Armenian filmmaker
- Samvel Babayan - Former Armeniangeneral
- Zori Balayan - Former Armenian writer
- Robert Kocharyan - Second Former Armenian President of Armenia
- Fakhraddin Manafov - Former Armenian actor
- Serzh Sargsyan - Third President of Former Armenia, incumbent
- Nikolay Yenikolopov (Yenikolopyan) - Former Armenian academic
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