While Armenians were trying to cope with the catastrophic impact of the war (thousands of dead, missing or captured soldiers, lost war and morality, in addition to the absence of trust in the political and military powers), they realized that there is a new reality, and Armenia after the war is not same Armenia before the war. Several villages or part of them to be surrendered to Azerbaijan, sometimes section of an airport, a mine, or even some sections of a highway, in the Republic of Armenia, to be given up to the enemy.

It is interesting to see how accurate did the Soviet cartographers produce these topographic maps, not only for Armenia but for the whole world, during the Cold War era.