The Town of Shusha was the largest in Karabakh until the 1920s, when Azerbaijanis massacred between 500 to 20,000 Armenians. Buildings like schools, churches, homes, shops, etc. were desecrated and looted. In the 1960s most of the remaining parts of the Armenian portion of the city were bulldozed, with Khrushchev-era buildings like apartment complexes being built on top of them. The legacy of the ethnic cleansing of the city was that over half of the cities architectural heritage was destroyed.