Interview with Leonid, Serviceman (Nagorno-Karabakh War), Conducted in Nagorno-Karabakh, 31 August 2013 (RU)

Abstract

Leonid is a professional soldier, about 60 years old, who worked as a school teacher (teaching "Voennoe delo" - Military Art as a subject tought in Soviet schools) in Mingechaur/Mingechevir, Azerbaijan, untill his extended family was persecuted during the ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Azerbaijan in 1988. He was actively involved in the war. The interview was conducted in his ancestral house in the Martuni District, Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh, on the 31st of August 2013.