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THE REASON FOR THE EMIGRATION FROM SOS CLARIFIED BY THE RURAL COMMUNITY HEAD
http://karabakh-open.info/en/subjecten/4391-en992
Friday, 10 May 2013 22:06
Sos is one of the largest villages of Martouni region yet the youths
have begun to leave the village in the recent years. There were
even cases when whole families left the village. Sos inhabitants
speak regretfully of the emigration as mainly young people leave
the village. What is the reason and why do young people prefer to
live outside? We tried to get answers to these and a number of other
questions from rural community head of Sos Hunan Grigoryan.
- Mr. Grigoryan, what makes the villagers leave Sos?
- People want to live well. I do not mean that it is impossible to live
here, they just try to be well provided for. Part of the inhabitants
emigrate, another part go to work outside for 3-4 months.
Part of them go to the province of Rostov where Sos villagers have
been living since the years of the Soviet Union, after the Artsakh
war their number increased. Today there is a village with about 90
families there, the greater part of them are from Sos. We call it
Sos in Rostov. Those who go there do not return any more, they get
jobs, marry, register and settle there permanently. Another part of
our villagers leave for Moscow to work, there a co-villager of ours
pays a high salary at an amount of USD 1500 per month to those from
Sos. Some people have to pay credits, some are to repair their houses,
this is a good chance for our villagers to earn money.
- The inhabitants of which age group mainly leave?
- Young people do. Being unable to find any job 1 or 2 years after
demobilization they have to leave.
- Mr. Grigoryan what can you say about the emigration of whole
families. Is this still going on?
- Yes, there were such cases as well. But now no family leaves the
village any more. Besides there are cases when they return again. For
example, two families have come back this year.
- How many people left the village during the past 3 years?
- Nearly 15 young people and 4 families left the village. I hope some
day they will all return to Sos.
Interviewer Hakob Avanesyan
http://karabakh-open.info/en/subjecten/4391-en992
Friday, 10 May 2013 22:06
Sos is one of the largest villages of Martouni region yet the youths
have begun to leave the village in the recent years. There were
even cases when whole families left the village. Sos inhabitants
speak regretfully of the emigration as mainly young people leave
the village. What is the reason and why do young people prefer to
live outside? We tried to get answers to these and a number of other
questions from rural community head of Sos Hunan Grigoryan.
- Mr. Grigoryan, what makes the villagers leave Sos?
- People want to live well. I do not mean that it is impossible to live
here, they just try to be well provided for. Part of the inhabitants
emigrate, another part go to work outside for 3-4 months.
Part of them go to the province of Rostov where Sos villagers have
been living since the years of the Soviet Union, after the Artsakh
war their number increased. Today there is a village with about 90
families there, the greater part of them are from Sos. We call it
Sos in Rostov. Those who go there do not return any more, they get
jobs, marry, register and settle there permanently. Another part of
our villagers leave for Moscow to work, there a co-villager of ours
pays a high salary at an amount of USD 1500 per month to those from
Sos. Some people have to pay credits, some are to repair their houses,
this is a good chance for our villagers to earn money.
- The inhabitants of which age group mainly leave?
- Young people do. Being unable to find any job 1 or 2 years after
demobilization they have to leave.
- Mr. Grigoryan what can you say about the emigration of whole
families. Is this still going on?
- Yes, there were such cases as well. But now no family leaves the
village any more. Besides there are cases when they return again. For
example, two families have come back this year.
- How many people left the village during the past 3 years?
- Nearly 15 young people and 4 families left the village. I hope some
day they will all return to Sos.
Interviewer Hakob Avanesyan