Yana Lalayan

Yana Lalayan

Yana Lalayan is a doctoral student in History at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. She writes on displacement, memory, and material culture of war, with a particular focus on the lived experiences of Armenians displaced from Artsakh.

And the Wind Smelled of Papa’s Tobacco

And the Wind Smelled of Papa’s Tobacco

In this deeply personal reflection on the third anniversary of the loss of Nagorno-Karabakh, Yana Lalaian returns to the landscapes of Artsakh through memories of family, food, rivers and village life. As the possibility of losing that landscape becomes real, memory itself becomes a way of holding on to home.