Yukhari Askipara

Yukhari Askipara (, ) is a destroyed Azerbaijani village in an exclave of the Qazakh District of Azerbaijan, currently occupied by Armenia and completely surrounded by the Tavush Province of Armenia. The exclave has been occupied by Armenian forces since the First Nagorno-Karabakh War which also included fighting in Qazakh. Today, the village is destroyed with only the foundations and some lower portions of the houses remaining.
History.
There are three medieval bridges, a fortress and the ruins of a church in the village.
The village was occupied by the Armenians in 1990 and its Azerbaijani inhabitants (some 500 people from around 100) were expelled, becoming idps in other villages of Azerbaijan's Qazax district. The village is now administered as part of Tavush Province of Armenia. The Armenian name of the village is "Verin Voskepar" ().
Notable Citizens.
Locally born Firudin Musayev rose from a peasant background to become a brigadeer, then state farm director before becoming a deputy of the 8th convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.