Official Name: | Berkadzor |
Native Name: | Բերքաձոր |
Pushpin Map: | Azerbaijan |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Subdivision Type2: | Country |
Subdivision Name2: | Azerbaijan |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Khojaly |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 1998 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 195 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | AZT |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Coordinates: | 39.8761°N 46.7817°W |
Elevation M: | 619 |
Berkadzor (Armenian: Բերքաձոր) is a village in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Prior to the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, it was under the control of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh as part of its Askeran Province, and had an ethnic Armenian-majority population. The village was founded in 1998.
The village is also known as Armenabad.
During the Soviet period, the area around the village was a part of the Askeran District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. On 25 September 2023, amid the exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region, a fuel depot in Berkadzor exploded, resulting in the deaths of at least 170 people and over 300 injuries.[2]
Historical heritage sites in and around the village include tombs from the 2nd–1st millennia BCE.[1]
The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry, as well as in different state institutions. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a house of culture, a school, two shops, and a medical centre.[1]
The village had 165 inhabitants in 2005,[3] and 195 inhabitants in 2015.[1]