Azerbaijani president lays foundation for new village in Fuzuli PHOTO

On September 14, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev laid the foundation for the new village of Garakhanbayli in Fuzuli District.

Emin Huseynov, Special Representative of the President in the Aghdam, Fuzuli, and Khojavand districts, briefed the head of state on the upcoming work, Caliber.Az reports via local media.

The new village will accommodate residents of Garakhanbayli and Merdinli, which were destroyed during the Armenian occupation.

The project will be implemented in two phases. The first phase, scheduled for completion next year, will cover an area of approximately 87 hectares. During this phase, 404 families, totalling 1,861 people, are planned to be relocated. A total of 404 individual houses will be built: 81 two-bedroom, 202 three-bedroom, 101 four-bedroom, and 20 five-bedroom homes. The village will also feature social infrastructure, including administrative and service buildings, a school, kindergarten, a medical centre, roughly 16 kilometres of internal roads, as well as electricity, gas, water, and sewage networks.

The second phase, spanning 2027–2030, will cover about 230 hectares. During this stage, 1,075 families, totalling 4,093 people, will be relocated. A total of 771 individual houses of two to five rooms, as well as two- and three-story residential buildings, will be constructed. The second phase will also include a school and two kindergartens. Population size and housing numbers have been determined with a twenty-year development perspective for the village.

By Khagan Isayev