| Vanadzor Վանաձոր | |
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  Vanadzor Վանաձոր | |
| Coordinates: | |
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| Country |  Armenia |
| Marz | Lori |
| Government | |
| - Mayor | Samvel Darbinyan |
| Elevation | 1,424. Armenia (Հայաստան transliterated: Hayastan,) officially the Republic of Armenia (Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն Hayastani Administrative divisions The following is a list of the provinces with population area and density information The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. 6 m (4,674 ft) |
| Population (2001) | |
| - Total | 107,394 |
| Time zone | GMT +4 (UTC+4) |
| - Summer (DST) | GMT+5 (UTC+5) |
| Area code(s) | 322 |
| Website: www.vanadzor.ru | |
Vanadzor (Armenian: Վանաձոր) is the third-largest city in Armenia with a population of 107,394 (2001 census) and the capital of the Lori province. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London UTC+4 time zone is used as Moscow Summer Time Iraq Summer Time Azerbaijan Time Single zone countries Daylight saving time ( DST Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London UTC+5 is the Timezone for Pakistan Standard Time West Asia Standard Time. A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks The Armenian language (hy հայերեն լեզու hajɛɹɛn lɛzu —, conventional short form) is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian Armenia (Հայաստան transliterated: Hayastan,) officially the Republic of Armenia (Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն Hayastani Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. It was previously known as Kirovakan (after Sergey Kirov) during the Soviet era and as Karakilisa ("black church" in Turkish) during the Tsarist period. Sergei Mironovich Kirov (Серге́й Миро́нович Ки́ров ( &ndash December 1, 1934) was a prominent early Bolshevik leader whose assassination Turkish ( tr Türkçe IPA) is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. The city is considered to be one of the most picturesque in the entire country, having beautiful summer homes or dachas. Dacha ( is a Russian word for seasonal or year-round second homes located in the Exurbs of Soviet and Russian cities However, it is dominated by a large chemical plant.
Vanadzor's history dates back to the Bronze Age, with interesting tombs and other material finds now, in principle, housed in the local museum. The term Bronze Age refers to a period in human cultural development when the most advanced Metalworking (at least in systematic and widespread use included techniques for The town 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 Tbilisi in 1899. Tbilisi (ˌtbiˈliːsi in Georgian: თბილისი is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari The vicinity of the city was the site of the Battle of Karakilisa when in May 1918, General Tovmas Nazarbekian's outnumbered troops successfully defended it from the invading Turkish Army, pushing them back just a few days after the crucial battle of Sardarapat. The Battle of Karakilisa (Կարակիլիսի ճակատամարտ was a battle of Caucasus Campaign of World War I that took place in the vicinity of Tovmas Nazarbekian (Nazarbekov, (1855–1931 was an Armenian general in the Russian Army who was the governor of the Administration for Western Armenia The Turkish Army ( Turkish: Türk Kara Kuvvetleri) is a branch of the Turkish Armed Forces. The Battle of Sardarabad (Սարդարապատի ճակատամարտ Sardarapat Savaşı was a battle of the Caucasus Campaign of World War I that took place [1] On the North side of the Spitak-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. For the nearby village see Spitak (village. Spitak (Սպիտակ formerly Amamth and Amamlu) is a city in northern
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Notable people
- Stepan Zoryan, an Armenian writer,
- Suren Aghababyan, a literary critic
- Shavarsh Karapetyan, a Soviet Armenian finswimmer,
- Vic Darchinyan, the former IBF and IBO champion,
- Gor Mkhitarian, an Armenian rock-musician. Stepan Zoryan (1890 - 1967 was a Soviet Armenian writer Biography Zoryan's works are dedicated to the life of Armenian village its social problems and Suren Bardughi Aghababyan (born January 22, 1922 Kirovakan - 1982 was a Soviet Armenian literary critic Doctor of philology Shavarsh Vladimirovich Karapetyan (Шаварш Владимирович Карапетян (born May 19 1953 in Kirovakan) is a retired Soviet Vakhtang "Vic" Darchinyan (Վախթանգ Դարչինյան born 7 January 1976 in Vanadzor, Armenia) is the former IBF Gor Mkhitarian was born in 1973 in Vanadzor, Armenia. Biography ARMENIAN SINGER/SONGWRITER The emergence of Gor Mkhitarian reflects the very
- Tigran Sargsyan, Prime Minister of Armenia
Sport
- Lori Vanadzor - football club
- FC Vanadzor - football club
Sister cities
References
- ^ Hohanissian, Richard G. Tigran Sargsyan (Տիգրան Սարգսյան born January 29, 1960) has been the Prime Minister of Armenia since 9 April 2008 FC Lori Vanadzor is an Armenian football club from Vanadzor. The club participated in the first ever Armenian football competition after the split-up FC Vanadzor is an Armenian football club from Vanadzor. The club made their professional debut as Avtogen Vanadzor in the 1993 Armenian First League Bagneux is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: Bagneux Aisne, in the Aisne département This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Pasadena ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Batumi (ბათუმი formerly Batum or Batoum) is a seaside city on the Black Sea coast and Capital of Adjara, an Autonomous Georgia ( საქართველო, Sakartvelo) is a Transcontinental country in the Caucasus region situated at the dividing line between (1997) The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times. New York. St. Martin's Press, 299
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