The State Service for the Protection of Historical Environment of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) has summed up 2021, assessing it as a difficult year for the Service.

As a result of the war unleashed by Azerbaijan in the fall of 2020, about 2,000 monuments have remained in the occupied territories.

In 2021, work was carried out to preserve, popularize, and study historical and architectural immovable monuments, historical environment, and other cultural treasures, as well as to monitor and collect information on the condition of monuments in the Azerbaijani-occupied territories.

During the reporting year, about 200 monuments were discovered in the Martakert and Askeran regions—including cross-stones, tombstones and church-chapels, some of which containing inscriptions and others containing important information.