Hadrut District (NKAO)

Hadrut District (Azerbaijani: Hadrut rayonu; Armenian: Հադրութի շրջան, romanized: Hadrowt'i shrjan) was an administrative unit within the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.

[3] The administrative center of the district was the town of Hadrut.

[1] The total area of the district was 679 km2 and it included 41 villages (1986).

[4] Following the First Nagorno-Karabakh war, the former district came under the control of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh and was incorporated into its Hadrut Province.

However, during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, Azerbaijan recaptured the town of Hadrut during the Battle of Hadrut, followed by the whole of the district.