Xəlfəli, Shusha

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Khalfali (Xəlfəli) is a village in Shusha District, Azerbaijan, and the center of the Khalfali rural administrative-territorial district, which also includes Armudlu, Dukanlar, Garabulag, Lachinlar, Mirzalar, Shushulu and Zamanpayasi. The village sits about 1260 meters above sea level on the Khalfalichay River, near Shusha (about 4 km to the west). In Soviet times it was part of Shusha district in the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region of the Azerbaijan SSR. It was occupied by Armenian forces in 1992 during the Karabakh conflict. After the 2020 trilateral ceasefire, it came under Russian peacekeepers' control, and Azerbaijani forces retook it during operations on 19–20 September 2023. Before the war, the population was exclusively Azerbaijani. Population history: 1912 – 1,389 people (mostly Azerbaijanis listed as "Tatars"); 1921 – 1,073 Azerbaijanis; 1986 – 126 Azerbaijanis.