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The Shahmasur community of Artsakh’s Martakert region has 158 residents. They all are busy restoring normal life in the village after the war, its head Slava Baghdasaryan told Artsakhpress on Thursday.

"Two displaced families have settled in the village. We can accept five more displaced families. The school has 27 students, 2 of them are children of displaced families; classrooms are few. We do not have a kindergarten. There is a community center, an aid station, a club, a ceremony hall in the village that need renovation,” he said.

“We have a water supply problem. We get water for a few hours a day. The village is provided with electricity and gas. We have applied to the Government of the Republic of Artsakh, it is possible that the inter-community roads will be asphalted in 2022," the village head noted.

Speaking about the employment of the villagers, Baghdasaryan mentioned that they are mainly engaged in agriculture, cultivation of their land, and some of them work in the Kashen mine.