Operation Kalbajar was a military offensive launched by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in late 1993 against the forces of the Armenian Army and the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to recapture
Azerbaijani refugees fleeing from Kalbajar through the Murov range.
Kalbajar itself is mostly filled with tall mountains and dense forests.
Murov mountain in Azerbaijan Caucasus 3
The First Nagorno-Karabakh War was an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994 in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan between the majority
Operation Kalbajar
…against the forces of the Armenian Army and the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to recapture the district of Kalbajar in the final stage of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Armenian forces had captured the entire district in an offensive in March–April 1993. These developments caused political turmoil within Azerbaijan…
Clockwise from top left: Remnants of Azerbaijani APCs; internally displaced Azerbaijanis from the Armenian-occupied territories; Armenian T-72 tank memorial at the outskirts of Stepanakert; Armenian soldiers
Azerbaijani soldiers during the war, 1992
The road leading up to Shusha was the scene of a battle between Armenian and Azerbaijani armored vehicles.
A derelict BRDM-2 in Dashalty