Official Name: | Turshsu / Lisagor |
Native Name: | Turşsu / Լիսագոր |
Pushpin Map: | Azerbaijan |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Subdivision Type2: | Country |
Subdivision Name2: | ![]() |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Shusha |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 130 |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Coordinates: | 39.6875°N 46.6431°W |
Turshsu (az|Turşsu) or Lisagor (hy|Լիսագոր) is a village that is in the Shusha District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The village was founded in the beginning of the 20th century as the Russian settlement of Lysogor (ru|Лысогор) in the Shusha Uyezd of the Elisabethpol Governorate in the Russian Empire.[2] In 1914, 36 people lived in the village, mostly Russians.[3]
During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Shusha District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a house of culture, a secondary school, and a medical centre. The Lisagor branch of the Shushi Children's Music School is also located in the village.[1]
The village had 88 inhabitants in 2005,[4] and 130 inhabitants in 2015.[1] The Azerbaijani population fled the fighting in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.[5]