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An old man reading prayers at a memorial cemetery in downtown Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan

David Akopyan, 34, from Karabakh, became a disabled war veteran at age 19 after he was gravely wounded. But take today he drives a car, goes hunting, fishing and is preparing for his wedding day

Albert Sarkisyan, 50, from Karabakh, a sculptor, painter and accomplished musician, it

The destroyed Azeri village of Zarysly in Nagorny Karabakh, that Albert and his comrades destroyed during the war

Ilchin Gasanov, 40, the only Azeri sniper during the Karabakh war

Muybargiz Mustafaev, 41, in his apartment in Baku. After the war he

Ilkham Aliev, 54, the head of a district veterans’ union in Baku

Armen Arutuynyan, 46, as a tankman and took part in the most famous battle of the Karabakh war – the battle of Shushi, an ancient town which had once a crossroads for Persian merchants

Elman Mamedov, the father of three, went to fight, he says, only not to let others

Tigran Bagdasaryan, 43, former infantryman, today, he works as a security guard at an open pit, which is a 10-minute walk from his old battlefield

The memorial cemetery in downtown Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, where many of those who got killed in Karabakh, are buried

The portrait of the late Valery Dzalayan, an offspring of the princes, who once ruled the area, where he was killed during Karabakh war

Grigory Akopyan, 61, a father of the disabled war veteran David, who went to war at the age of 14. In the mirror one can see the mountain, which was Grigory

Nothing except the former fighters