FRANCESCO BREMBATI
The Last Resort

For years, USSR government employees used the Bujakan Resort for their summer holidays. But when the Republic collapsed, the tourist destination fell into disrepair: pipes left to crumble, electrical wires exposed. The hot water was cut off, along with the heating. Outside, temperatures became bitterly cold.
But on the 3rd of October, a family of four refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh arrived in Bujakan, fleeing the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The next day, 30 others turned up, followed by dozens more in the following weeks. There was only one place to put them, the local mayor decided. So the families were consigned to the resort's empty buildings: a shell of a holiday destination, and now their only shelter from war.
The families have lost everything in the conflict and have nowhere left to call home. But as winter approaches, the resort is about to become uninhabitable. They don't have any other place to go.

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