Urud gravestone statues and grave chest
In Urud village of Garakilsa district of Zangazur mahal.
On 07.11.1995, Gafan, Sisiyan, Meghri, Gorus regions were abolished and Sunik region was established. Garakilsa district — from 03.02.1940 — Sisian, Urud village — from 07.03.1968 — was named Vorotan.
Arts and crafts
It was destroyed after the Azerbaijanis deportation in 1988.
In the medieval cemetery in the village of Urud (from 03.07.1968 - Vorotan) of Garakilsa (from 02.03.1940 - Sisian) district of Zangazur mahal, many tombstone chests and ram statues were recorded. Until 1988, only Azerbaijanis lived in Urud village. The first Armenians set foot in the village after the 1988 ethnic cleansing and deportation of West Azerbaijanis.
In 1961, the corresponding member of ANAS, who was on a scientific mission in the village of Urud, Ph.D. M. Nemetova studied up to 100 such monuments of the 15th-17th centuries. Above each of those monuments, the identity of the deceased, the date of death, and sometimes the cause of death are written in Arabic.