Agdaban

Agdaban is a village in the Kəlbəcər District of western Azerbaijan, in the Lesser Caucasus mountains. On the night of 7–8 April 1992, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Armenian forces attacked and burned the village — one of the deadliest single episodes of that war against Azerbaijani civilians, remembered in Azerbaijan as the Agdaban tragedy. The wider district was then under Armenian control from 1993 until Azerbaijan retook it on 25 November 2020, under the ceasefire that ended the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. Kəlbəcər was heavily depopulated and its settlements damaged during the nearly three-decade occupation; since 2022 the "Great Return" state program has been rebuilding infrastructure and resettling former internally displaced residents, concentrated so far mainly in the district capital, Kalbajar city. Agdaban itself remains in an early stage of reconstruction, with little to no permanent population and no verified tourist infrastructure as of this writing.

By Plane

Ganja International Airport (KVD IATA) is the nearest major airport.

By Car / Road

Accessible by road from Kalbajar and Ganja. Kəlbəcər is part of Azerbaijan's formerly occupied territories: as of July 2025, foreign visitors need an entry permit, obtainable in advance via the official "Yolumuz Qarabağa" portal, or arranged automatically when booking an officially accredited hotel.

Walkable.

• Mountain scenery.

• Hiking.

• Kalbajar — district centre.
• Istisu — hot springs.
• Ganja — major city.