Kelbajar

Battle Of Kalbajar - The Battle - Heavy Resistance
... Armenians had assembled a force of several hundred men to enter Kelbajar from four different directions Melkonian's own detachment of tanks and troops from Karabakh ... The battered village of Charektar in Kelbajar had already seen extensive fighting in earlier weeks and was reinforced by both Azerbaijani and foreign fighters as ... Within another twenty kilometers of his forces' positions was the Kelbajar's namesake capital, a crucial road intersection that led to Lachin and the ...

Battle Of Kalbajar
... The Battle of Kelbajar took place in March and April 1993, during the Nagorno-Karabakh War ... It resulted in the capture by Armenian military forces of the Kelbajar region of Azerbaijan ... Kelbajar lay outside the contested enclave of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, but within Nagorno-Karabakh geographic region of Azerbaijan, that Armenian and ...

Nagorno-Karabakh War - Summer 1993 - Kelbajar
... west of northern Karabakh, out of the boundaries of the region, was the rayon of Kelbajar, which bordered alongside Armenia ... Martuni region, Melkonian's fighters were tasked to move to capture the region of Kelbajar, where the incursions and purported artillery shelling were said to have been coming. 2 April, Armenian forces from two directions advanced towards Kelbajar in an attack that quickly struck against Azeri armor and troops entrenched near the Ganje-Kelbjar intersection ...

Military History Of The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic - Battle of Kelbajar
... The Battle of Kelbajar was the capture of the western region of Kelbajar, Azerbaijan during the 1993 spring-summer campaign by Armenian military forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh War ... Kelbajar was outside the boundaries of the contested enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh that Armenian and Azeri forces had been fighting over for five years ... Kelbajar, only several kilometers from Armenia's border, comprised several dozen villages including its eponymous provincial capital ...