Albert Kachaturyan e Larisa Gazaryan

Albert Kachaturyan and Larisa Gazaryan are well known in Shushi. They have never stopped teaching, even during the war. For their scholastic activity they both received a medal in 2005 and 2006. Albert's grandfather, Arsen, was the director of the magnificent nearby school that now lies in ruins. When the tension with the Azeris was building up during 1988 and fewer and fewer students were attending the classes, they insisted that every day the school's bell should ring. In September 1988 they were among the last people to leave Shushi, escorted by the Russians while a crowd of 600 people threatened to burn down their house. They managed to exchange their house with one in Stepanakert, where they continued teaching, and to get 32 bags of their books from Shushi when the Azeris allowed them to return to the city to take what they left in their homes. Four years later, in 1992, on the same day of the liberation they came back and rebuilt a house near the old one, unfortunately shelled a few days before, and Albert became the director of the school.