Vanadzor is the third-largest city in
ArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
with a population of 107,394 (2001 census) and the capital of the Lori Province. It was previously known as
Kirovakan (Armenian: Կիրովական, after
Sergey KirovSergei Mironovich Kirov , born Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov, was a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union. Kirov rose through the Communist Party ranks to become head of the Party organization in Leningrad...
) during the Soviet era and as
Karakilisa during the Tsarist period. The city is considered to be one of the most picturesque in the entire country, having beautiful summer homes or
dachaDacha is a Russian word for seasonal or year-round second homes often located in the exurbs of Soviet and Russian cities. In some cases, they are occupied for part of the year by their owners and rented out to urban residents as summer retreats...
s. Vanadzor is dominated by a large chemical plant.
Vanadzor's history dates back to the
Bronze AgeThe Bronze Age of a culture is the period when the most advanced metalworking in that culture utilised bronze. This could either have been based on the local smelting of copper and tin from ores, or trading for bronze from production areas elsewhere...
, with interesting tombs and other material finds now, in principle, housed in the local museum. The city received its name possibly as early as the 13th century, from a black stone church on a nearby hill. Totally destroyed in 1826 by Hasan Khan during the Russo-Persian war, the city enjoyed considerable uplift from the opening of the railroad to
TbilisiTbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form Tp'ilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...
in 1899. The vicinity of the city was the site of the Battle of Karakilisa when in May 1918, General
Tovmas NazarbekianTovmas Nazarbekian , , was an Armenian general in the Russian Caucasus Army that appointed as the governor of the Administration for Western Armenia and later promoted to Commander-in-chief of Democratic Republic of Armenia.He was born to a wealthy Russianized family of Armenian descent. He...
's outnumbered troops successfully defended it from the invading
Turkish ArmyThe Turkish Land Forces is a branch of the Turkish Armed Forces. It is one of the largest standing armies in the world and the second largest army of NATO....
, pushing them back just a few days after the crucial
battle of SardarapatThe Battle of Sardarabad was a battle of the Caucasus Campaign of World War I that took place near Sardarapat, Armenia from May 24 to May 26, 1918...
. On the North side of the
SpitakSpitak is a city in northern Armenia located in the Lori region with a population of 18,237. It was mostly destroyed by the devastating Spitak Earthquake in 1988, and was subsequently rebuilt in a slightly different location...
-Vanadzor highway, about 2 km West of the city, there is a little shrine in the ruins of a church, site of a planned monument to that battle.
Geography
Vanadzor, the capital of Lori, is located 128 km north of
YerevanYerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. It is situated on the Hrazdan River, and is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
and 64 km east of
GyumriGyumri is the capital and largest city of the Shirak Province in northwest Armenia...
.
At an altitude of 1424 meters , the city is built next to the valley of Pambak river and is surrounded by mountains that have an altitude of over 2500 meters. To the south and east, they are densely forested while to the north and west, they are more dry and often only covered by bushes and plants.
Vanadzor, like Gyumri and
SpitakSpitak is a city in northern Armenia located in the Lori region with a population of 18,237. It was mostly destroyed by the devastating Spitak Earthquake in 1988, and was subsequently rebuilt in a slightly different location...
(25 km west), received a considerable amount of damage from the 1988 Spitak earthquake during which 564 people died. But unlike the other cities, the majority of buildings, large avenues and the central park were unscathed from the earthquake.
Education
- School n°1 after "Vazgen"
- School n°2
- School n°3 after "Hovhannes Tumanian
- School n°4 after "Alexander Pushkin"
- School n°5 after "Vahan Teryan"
- School n0 11 after Griboyedov
Notable people
- Stepan Zoryan
Stepan Zoryan was a Soviet Armenian writer.-Biography:Zoryan's works are dedicated to the life of Armenian village, its social problems and sovietisation....
, an Armenian writer
- Suren Aghababyan
Suren Bardughi Aghababyan was a Soviet Armenian literary critic, Doctor of philology.He was an author of many monographies included the biographies of Yeghishe Charents and Axel Bakunts, and the "Hisory of Soviet Armenian literature" researches.-External links:*...
, a literary critic
- Shavarsh Karapetyan
Shavarsh Vladimirovich Karapetyan is a retired Soviet Armenian finswimmer, 13-times European Champion and seven-times USSR Champion, who saved 20 lives when a trolleybus fell into the Erevan reservoir....
, a Soviet Armenian finswimmer
- Vic Darchinyan
Vakhtang Darchinyan is a professional boxer who is the current WBA, WBC and IBF Undisputed Super Flyweight World Champion. Darchinyan was also formerly the IBF and IBO champion of the flyweight division and briefly reigned as the IBO's super flyweight champion also...
, World unified boxing champion and the former IBF and IBO champion
- Gor Mkhitarian
Gor Mkhitarian , , is an Armenian singer and songwriter living in Los Angeles. He started his solo career in 2001 and has released seven albums.- Biography :...
, an Armenian rock-musician
- Tigran Sargsyan
Tigran Sargsyan has been the Prime Minister of Armenia since 9 April 2008. He is not related to the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan....
, Prime Minister of Armenia
- Robert Jaghatspanyan,Owned the first Restaurant Franchise in Vanadzor
Sister cities
BagneuxBagneux is the name or part of the name of several communes in France:*Bagneux, Aisne, in the Aisne département*Bagneux, Allier, in the Allier département*Bagneux, Indre, in the Indre département*Bagneux, Marne, in the Marne département...
,
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
(since 1968)
PasadenaPasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States; and is a satellite city of Los Angeles. Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including the...
,
CaliforniaCalifornia is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...
,
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
BatumiBatumi is a seaside city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia. It has a population of 121,806 ....
,
GeorgiaGeorgia Georgia Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the east by Azerbaijan...
PodolskPodolsk is an industrial city and the administrative center of Podolsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Pakhra River...
,
RussiaRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
Gallery
Vanadzor is the third-largest city in
ArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
with a population of 107,394 (2001 census) and the capital of the Lori Province. It was previously known as
Kirovakan (Armenian: Կիրովական, after
Sergey KirovSergei Mironovich Kirov , born Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov, was a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union. Kirov rose through the Communist Party ranks to become head of the Party organization in Leningrad...
) during the Soviet era and as
Karakilisa during the Tsarist period. The city is considered to be one of the most picturesque in the entire country, having beautiful summer homes or
dachaDacha is a Russian word for seasonal or year-round second homes often located in the exurbs of Soviet and Russian cities. In some cases, they are occupied for part of the year by their owners and rented out to urban residents as summer retreats...
s. Vanadzor is dominated by a large chemical plant.
Vanadzor's history dates back to the
Bronze AgeThe Bronze Age of a culture is the period when the most advanced metalworking in that culture utilised bronze. This could either have been based on the local smelting of copper and tin from ores, or trading for bronze from production areas elsewhere...
, with interesting tombs and other material finds now, in principle, housed in the local museum. The city received its name possibly as early as the 13th century, from a black stone church on a nearby hill. Totally destroyed in 1826 by Hasan Khan during the Russo-Persian war, the city enjoyed considerable uplift from the opening of the railroad to
TbilisiTbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form Tp'ilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...
in 1899. The vicinity of the city was the site of the Battle of Karakilisa when in May 1918, General
Tovmas NazarbekianTovmas Nazarbekian , , was an Armenian general in the Russian Caucasus Army that appointed as the governor of the Administration for Western Armenia and later promoted to Commander-in-chief of Democratic Republic of Armenia.He was born to a wealthy Russianized family of Armenian descent. He...
's outnumbered troops successfully defended it from the invading
Turkish ArmyThe Turkish Land Forces is a branch of the Turkish Armed Forces. It is one of the largest standing armies in the world and the second largest army of NATO....
, pushing them back just a few days after the crucial
battle of SardarapatThe Battle of Sardarabad was a battle of the Caucasus Campaign of World War I that took place near Sardarapat, Armenia from May 24 to May 26, 1918...
. On the North side of the
SpitakSpitak is a city in northern Armenia located in the Lori region with a population of 18,237. It was mostly destroyed by the devastating Spitak Earthquake in 1988, and was subsequently rebuilt in a slightly different location...
-Vanadzor highway, about 2 km West of the city, there is a little shrine in the ruins of a church, site of a planned monument to that battle.
Geography
Vanadzor, the capital of Lori, is located 128 km north of
YerevanYerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. It is situated on the Hrazdan River, and is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
and 64 km east of
GyumriGyumri is the capital and largest city of the Shirak Province in northwest Armenia...
.
At an altitude of 1424 meters , the city is built next to the valley of Pambak river and is surrounded by mountains that have an altitude of over 2500 meters. To the south and east, they are densely forested while to the north and west, they are more dry and often only covered by bushes and plants.
Vanadzor, like Gyumri and
SpitakSpitak is a city in northern Armenia located in the Lori region with a population of 18,237. It was mostly destroyed by the devastating Spitak Earthquake in 1988, and was subsequently rebuilt in a slightly different location...
(25 km west), received a considerable amount of damage from the 1988 Spitak earthquake during which 564 people died. But unlike the other cities, the majority of buildings, large avenues and the central park were unscathed from the earthquake.
Education
- School n°1 after "Vazgen"
- School n°2
- School n°3 after "Hovhannes Tumanian
- School n°4 after "Alexander Pushkin"
- School n°5 after "Vahan Teryan"
- School n0 11 after Griboyedov
Notable people
- Stepan Zoryan
Stepan Zoryan was a Soviet Armenian writer.-Biography:Zoryan's works are dedicated to the life of Armenian village, its social problems and sovietisation....
, an Armenian writer
- Suren Aghababyan
Suren Bardughi Aghababyan was a Soviet Armenian literary critic, Doctor of philology.He was an author of many monographies included the biographies of Yeghishe Charents and Axel Bakunts, and the "Hisory of Soviet Armenian literature" researches.-External links:*...
, a literary critic
- Shavarsh Karapetyan
Shavarsh Vladimirovich Karapetyan is a retired Soviet Armenian finswimmer, 13-times European Champion and seven-times USSR Champion, who saved 20 lives when a trolleybus fell into the Erevan reservoir....
, a Soviet Armenian finswimmer
- Vic Darchinyan
Vakhtang Darchinyan is a professional boxer who is the current WBA, WBC and IBF Undisputed Super Flyweight World Champion. Darchinyan was also formerly the IBF and IBO champion of the flyweight division and briefly reigned as the IBO's super flyweight champion also...
, World unified boxing champion and the former IBF and IBO champion
- Gor Mkhitarian
Gor Mkhitarian , , is an Armenian singer and songwriter living in Los Angeles. He started his solo career in 2001 and has released seven albums.- Biography :...
, an Armenian rock-musician
- Tigran Sargsyan
Tigran Sargsyan has been the Prime Minister of Armenia since 9 April 2008. He is not related to the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan....
, Prime Minister of Armenia
- Robert Jaghatspanyan,Owned the first Restaurant Franchise in Vanadzor
Sister cities
BagneuxBagneux is the name or part of the name of several communes in France:*Bagneux, Aisne, in the Aisne département*Bagneux, Allier, in the Allier département*Bagneux, Indre, in the Indre département*Bagneux, Marne, in the Marne département...
,
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
(since 1968)
PasadenaPasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States; and is a satellite city of Los Angeles. Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including the...
,
CaliforniaCalifornia is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...
,
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
BatumiBatumi is a seaside city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia. It has a population of 121,806 ....
,
GeorgiaGeorgia Georgia Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the east by Azerbaijan...
PodolskPodolsk is an industrial city and the administrative center of Podolsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Pakhra River...
,
RussiaRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
Gallery
Vanadzor is the third-largest city in
ArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
with a population of 107,394 (2001 census) and the capital of the Lori Province. It was previously known as
Kirovakan (Armenian: Կիրովական, after
Sergey KirovSergei Mironovich Kirov , born Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov, was a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union. Kirov rose through the Communist Party ranks to become head of the Party organization in Leningrad...
) during the Soviet era and as
Karakilisa during the Tsarist period. The city is considered to be one of the most picturesque in the entire country, having beautiful summer homes or
dachaDacha is a Russian word for seasonal or year-round second homes often located in the exurbs of Soviet and Russian cities. In some cases, they are occupied for part of the year by their owners and rented out to urban residents as summer retreats...
s. Vanadzor is dominated by a large chemical plant.
Vanadzor's history dates back to the
Bronze AgeThe Bronze Age of a culture is the period when the most advanced metalworking in that culture utilised bronze. This could either have been based on the local smelting of copper and tin from ores, or trading for bronze from production areas elsewhere...
, with interesting tombs and other material finds now, in principle, housed in the local museum. The city received its name possibly as early as the 13th century, from a black stone church on a nearby hill. Totally destroyed in 1826 by Hasan Khan during the Russo-Persian war, the city enjoyed considerable uplift from the opening of the railroad to
TbilisiTbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form Tp'ilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...
in 1899. The vicinity of the city was the site of the Battle of Karakilisa when in May 1918, General
Tovmas NazarbekianTovmas Nazarbekian , , was an Armenian general in the Russian Caucasus Army that appointed as the governor of the Administration for Western Armenia and later promoted to Commander-in-chief of Democratic Republic of Armenia.He was born to a wealthy Russianized family of Armenian descent. He...
's outnumbered troops successfully defended it from the invading
Turkish ArmyThe Turkish Land Forces is a branch of the Turkish Armed Forces. It is one of the largest standing armies in the world and the second largest army of NATO....
, pushing them back just a few days after the crucial
battle of SardarapatThe Battle of Sardarabad was a battle of the Caucasus Campaign of World War I that took place near Sardarapat, Armenia from May 24 to May 26, 1918...
. On the North side of the
SpitakSpitak is a city in northern Armenia located in the Lori region with a population of 18,237. It was mostly destroyed by the devastating Spitak Earthquake in 1988, and was subsequently rebuilt in a slightly different location...
-Vanadzor highway, about 2 km West of the city, there is a little shrine in the ruins of a church, site of a planned monument to that battle.
Geography
Vanadzor, the capital of Lori, is located 128 km north of
YerevanYerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. It is situated on the Hrazdan River, and is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
and 64 km east of
GyumriGyumri is the capital and largest city of the Shirak Province in northwest Armenia...
.
At an altitude of 1424 meters , the city is built next to the valley of Pambak river and is surrounded by mountains that have an altitude of over 2500 meters. To the south and east, they are densely forested while to the north and west, they are more dry and often only covered by bushes and plants.
Vanadzor, like Gyumri and
SpitakSpitak is a city in northern Armenia located in the Lori region with a population of 18,237. It was mostly destroyed by the devastating Spitak Earthquake in 1988, and was subsequently rebuilt in a slightly different location...
(25 km west), received a considerable amount of damage from the 1988 Spitak earthquake during which 564 people died. But unlike the other cities, the majority of buildings, large avenues and the central park were unscathed from the earthquake.
Education
- School n°1 after "Vazgen"
- School n°2
- School n°3 after "Hovhannes Tumanian
- School n°4 after "Alexander Pushkin"
- School n°5 after "Vahan Teryan"
- School n0 11 after Griboyedov
Notable people
- Stepan Zoryan
Stepan Zoryan was a Soviet Armenian writer.-Biography:Zoryan's works are dedicated to the life of Armenian village, its social problems and sovietisation....
, an Armenian writer
- Suren Aghababyan
Suren Bardughi Aghababyan was a Soviet Armenian literary critic, Doctor of philology.He was an author of many monographies included the biographies of Yeghishe Charents and Axel Bakunts, and the "Hisory of Soviet Armenian literature" researches.-External links:*...
, a literary critic
- Shavarsh Karapetyan
Shavarsh Vladimirovich Karapetyan is a retired Soviet Armenian finswimmer, 13-times European Champion and seven-times USSR Champion, who saved 20 lives when a trolleybus fell into the Erevan reservoir....
, a Soviet Armenian finswimmer
- Vic Darchinyan
Vakhtang Darchinyan is a professional boxer who is the current WBA, WBC and IBF Undisputed Super Flyweight World Champion. Darchinyan was also formerly the IBF and IBO champion of the flyweight division and briefly reigned as the IBO's super flyweight champion also...
, World unified boxing champion and the former IBF and IBO champion
- Gor Mkhitarian
Gor Mkhitarian , , is an Armenian singer and songwriter living in Los Angeles. He started his solo career in 2001 and has released seven albums.- Biography :...
, an Armenian rock-musician
- Tigran Sargsyan
Tigran Sargsyan has been the Prime Minister of Armenia since 9 April 2008. He is not related to the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan....
, Prime Minister of Armenia
- Robert Jaghatspanyan,Owned the first Restaurant Franchise in Vanadzor
Sister cities
BagneuxBagneux is the name or part of the name of several communes in France:*Bagneux, Aisne, in the Aisne département*Bagneux, Allier, in the Allier département*Bagneux, Indre, in the Indre département*Bagneux, Marne, in the Marne département...
,
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
(since 1968)
PasadenaPasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States; and is a satellite city of Los Angeles. Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including the...
,
CaliforniaCalifornia is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...
,
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
BatumiBatumi is a seaside city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia. It has a population of 121,806 ....
,
GeorgiaGeorgia Georgia Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the east by Azerbaijan...
PodolskPodolsk is an industrial city and the administrative center of Podolsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Pakhra River...
,
RussiaRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
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