1991 Shushi Historical Postcard Set, Karabakh, Armenian

A postcard booklet titled "Շուշի փոստային հին բացիկներ" (Shushi — Old Postal Cards), published in Yerevan in 1991. The set reproduces Imperial-era photographs of Shushi, the historic city in Nagorno-Karabakh: street scenes with wooden balconied houses, the Church of the Saviour, villagers at a mountain spring, an Armenian woman in traditional dress captioned "Шушинская армянка," and a studio portrait of an Armenian couple. A color card of the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral is also included.

Shushi was the cultural heart of Armenian Karabakh, its population majority Armenian before the 1920 massacres fundamentally changed its demographics. This booklet was published in Yerevan in 1991 — the same year the Soviet Union collapsed and full-scale war over Karabakh began. Reproducing these Imperial-era images at that exact moment was a deliberate act of historical memory.

Good vintage condition. Cover shows light wear. Cards intact with clear reproduction. All cards present.