During the recent border escalation, Gevorg Hayrapetyan, a resident of Noravan, died a hero’s death. He was only 28 years old, a civilian, a farmer.
Gevorg was the father of 4 minor children, 4 boys. The eldest is 9 years old, the youngest is 2. The wife, Liana Amiryan, will become a mother again in a few months.
In a conversation with Forrights.am, Liana said that a few days before his death, her husband went to bring the cattle from the mountain and saw that our position was in an irregular situation, there were wounded as a result of the Azerbaijani shelling. “He went up to Ishkhanasar two or three days and brought down wounded soldiers. One of them had no clothes, one had lost his shoes. He helped the soldiers as much as he could. He brought them to our house, we gave them bread and water, fed them and sent them back. On the 13th of the month, he took our children to Sisian and returned to Noravan.”
Returning to the village, Gevorg Hayrapetyan saw that the entire population was displaced, only a few old people remained in the village who did not want to leave. He climbed a mountain with his friends, took a wounded soldier down on a horse, and then took him to a military hospital. On September 14, he again took a position to help the soldiers, and, on the direction of Ishkhanasar, he saw a damaged ambulance car standing on the road. He tried to repair the car together with the driver, in which there were wounded, but a projectile fell on the ambulance.
“The driver was scared; there was a terrible fight there at that time. Shells exploded everywhere under the wheels. His brother put him in the car, tried to take him to the hospital, but he did not make it: he died on the way. It was a terrible moment. After an hour or two the fight stopped,” Liana Amiryan tells.
The municipality of Sisian helped her with her husband’s funeral, and her husband’s brother and father-in-law also promised to take care of the children. But after the incident, the young woman, who is only 27 years old, lost faith in the future. “We were engaged in lifestock farming for about 12 years, we built a house, we worked, we increased our economy in order to achieve something, and now like this…” The future seems uncertain to Liana. Now she is in Artashat with her children. Liana does not know how long this temporary life will last.
“They say it’s calm now, but everyone says the same thing. If it was calm, they wouldn’t have left us here,” thinks Liana.
Children do not go to school in Artashat. “The classes are online, but we don’t have a computer or normal internet. There is no internet at the moment. “The children do the lessons on the phone, if they manage it,” says the woman.
RA President Vahagn Khachaturyan attended the funeral of Gevorg Hayrapetyan. He said that he will deal with family problems. “Perhaps they will help, we are waiting,” says Liana.
Սյունիքի մարզի Նորավան գյուղը, որը 1-2 կիլոմետր հեռավորության վրա է գտնվում Իշխանասարից, սահմանային բախումներից մեծ կորուստներ է ունեցել։
2021 թվականի նոյեմբերի 16-ին, երբ թշնամին գնդակոծում էր Սյունիքի դիրքերը, տեղային մարտերի ժամանակ 10 զոհ ունեցավ Նորավանը։ Բոլորը զինծառայողներ էին։
Noravan village of Syunik region, which is located 1-2 kilometers away from Ishkhanasar, suffered great losses from the border clashes.
On November 16, 2021, when the enemy was shelling Syunik positions, Noravan had 10 victims during local battles. All were servicemen.
To remind, early in the morning of September 13, the armed forces of Azerbaijan opened fire at the Armenia’s positions of Sotk, Vardenis, Goris, Kapan, Artanish and Ishkhanasar located on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Syuzan Simonyan