On March 15, 2013 the post of Mountainous Karabakh Republic plans to issue a set of 2 values with the EUROPA logo. The postage issue is published on subject "Visit" of program 2012. On stamps are presented  the views of Mountainous Karabakh from height of bird's flight: the Artsakh's unapproachable mountains and the ancient Monastery Gandzasar.

The issue is printed in 2 mini sheets of 9 sets and label and in sheetlet of 4 sets and 2 labels.

The operating monastery of the Armenian Apostolic Church Gandzasar is mentioned for the first time in the middle of the X-th century. According to the national legend, a monastery Gandzasar because of silver mines (in Armenian "gandz" - treasure, "sar" - the mountain) received the name by the name of mountains. According to a legend, in a tomb of the temple the head of John the Baptist brought here from Kilikiysky Armenia during one of crusades chopped off by the Tyrant is buried. In 1701 from Gandzasar the well-known addresses of east Armenians with a request for acceptance of the Russian citizenship and the military help in release from the Persian-Turkish yoke were sent to the Emperor of Russia Peter I.
The monastery strongly suffered in the period of the military conflict of 1991-1994 as a result of actions of the Azerbaijani long-range artillery and military aircraft.