Tumanyan

Tumanyan (Population` 4621)

Date established – 1995
Population – 4621
Area – 29905.31 ha
Distance to Yerevan - 150 km
Distance to the province capital - 38 km
Community Services ` The settlements included in the Tumanyan community are Tumanyan and Atan, Ahnidzor, Lorut, Martz, Shamut, and Karinj. The Community Center is the city of Tumanyan. They are engaged in agriculture, cattle-breeding and bee-keeping in communities. The community is surrounded by forests. The forests are rich in fruit and ornamental trees, berries, honey beans and medicinal herbs. There are monastic complexes, churches and numerous khachkars in the settlements of Tumanyan community. The Tumanyan community has favorable conditions for the development of tourism and has always attracted everyone's attention to its green and rich nature. The Kobayr Monastery is a great guarantee for tourism development in Tumanyan. It is a 12-13th centuries monastery complex, with a monumental monastery with medieval monumental monastery, with the monastery attracting the attention of tourists in its unique architectural elegance.

The city was formerly a part of Lori-Borchalu province of Tiflis province and had the name of Dzaghydzor and Dzaghidzor. Tumanyan was renamed in 1951 in honor of the Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan.

Historical-cultural monuments are different from the period of construction (2-1 thousand years BC to 13-15th centuries BC), more diverse monuments of 13-14th centuries (churches, fortresses, villages). The degrees of preservation of monuments, from ruins to well-preserved, are also different.
The monastery complex of Kobayr (Kobayravank, 12-13th centuries) is located in the territory of the community, consisting of Mariamashen and the main mountaineers (12-13th centuries, both burials) and 13th-century burial churches.
In the list of historical and cultural monuments approved by the RA Government in 2002, 11 monuments (9 units), 71 monuments (8 units) are located in the village of Kober.