 The buildings were conserved during the period of the Armenian SSR, and rebuilding work started in the 1980s.A series of nationwide problems led to a halt in the rebuilding for about a decade as the 1988 Armenian earthquake hit, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the Nagorno-Karabakh War broke out, and Armenia was blockaded by its two allied Turkic neighbors.Rebuilding work resumed at Kecharis in 1998 and finished in 2000.