Village Swap: How Armenians and Azeris Switched Homes Amid 1980s Ethnic Tension

Amid ethnic tension during the late 1980s, Armenians and Azeris swapped villages near the border of what were then two Soviet republics. Before the fall of the U.S.S.R., ethnic Armenians from a village in Azerbaijan exchanged their homes with people from an Azeri-populated village in Armenia. Both sides promised to protect each other's graveyards and allow villagers from each side to visit their dead.