Four years later: how the lives of those who left Alsheki changed in 2022 Many residents of Alsheki had to leave the city in a hurry, taking only the most valuable things - today they have a new home, a new life and most importantly, safety. Four years have passed, but the feelings are still alive. Irina Shchurova remembers the transition from Elshki with tears in her eyes. In 2022, I collected all the documents and money in a few hours, and without my belongings, with my two small children, I boarded a taxi. "We traveled 200 km for eight hours, we hid as drones and arrived at the village of Redinsk. There were military personnel there. They put us in their car and took us out themselves," Shachurova recalls. First they brought me to Armeniask, then to Dzhankoy, and then they offered Stavropol. I had to start all over again - look for a job, get my daughter Vika to school and my son to college. This lovely more details >>>