Vanadzor

Vanadzor (Population` 105000)

Date established – 1924թ
Population – 105000
Area – 2510 ha
Distance to Yerevan - 118 km
Community Services ` There are 4 state universities, 10 sports schools, 19 cultural institutions, music schools, art schools, choirs, culture houses, theaters, etc.

The history of Vanadzor's place of residence dates back to millenniums. But it seems that the centuries have left no trace here. The old district around which the city was formed does not exist.

The long-term work of archeologists has proven that the Tashir-Dzoraget region and especially the Vanadzor city are rich in small and large archeological monuments ("Kingdom", "Mashtots Blur", "Kosi Shorts").

The tombs of the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (third millennium BC) were found in the Dashats district. Pottery art is flourishing here. Metallic, bronze, and later iron finds in local production prove that metalworking has also been developed here.

Medieval Gharakilisa (the former name of Vanadzor is Kirovakan, and the old name of the city, Gharakilisa) has not been preserved. The only trace is the village of Papan in Vanadzor Gorge.

Not far from it you can see the ruins of the medieval church today. Together with Gugark, the settlement in the area of Vanadzor dates back to BCE. In the 2nd century BC it was part of Greater Armenia. X cent, the village was in the Kyurikian kingdom. It is supposed that the name Gharakilisa (Black Church) is Tatar, it was given in the name of the church built from black stone on the northern hill of Vanadzor in XIII century.

1801 Together with Georgia , Lori also became part of Russian empire and Gharakilisa became a border post.

Since 1849 Gharakilisa was in the Yerevan governance.

The construction of the Dilijan-Gharakilisa-Alexandrapol highway since 1870 and the Tiflis-Gharakilisa-Alexandrapol railroad, station, post office and banquets since 1899 has contributed to the formation and development of the town.

1812 European travelers Jaredaria and Robert Herore have seen here wooden, half-destroyed village with lumbered houses. And in 1829, Khachatur Abovyan, who came to Gharakilisa, says that there were barely 500-600 residents who emigrated from Yerevan.

Later, after joining Eastern Armenia to Russia, several hundred Armenian families immigrated from Kars, Ardahan, Bayazet and Erzurum in western Armenia. Vanadzor has been a town since 1924. In 1929-1930 the first layout of Gharakilisa (later Kirovakan, then Vanadzor) (architects, Karo Halabyan, Mikayel Mazmanyan, Gevorg Kochar) was designed to enlarge the city's territory in the western and eastern directions, in the town of Dashats.

Until 1935 it was called Gharakilisa. In January 1935, the Presidency of the Armenian SSR decided to rename Gharakilisa to commemorate the revolutionary Sergei Mironovitch Kirov Kirovakan. In 1939, the main design (architects, N. Zargaryan, A. Minasyan) became the city's image, with significant development prospects (industrial center and summer residence). In 1949 a new master plan was developed (architects H. Davtyan, R. Grigoryan). In the 1950s the Kirov (now Hayk) Square, the administrative center of the city, was built. In the 19th century, there were two churches in the city built in 1831 (the site of the ancient church destroyed by the earthquake in 1828)

Community leader – Mamikon Aslanyan
Party affiliation – Republican Party of Armenia

Community Council members

Aslanyan Mamikon
Ghambaryan Seyran
Vardanyan Khoren
Gayane Seyran's
Armen Albert Matinyan
Raffi Hovhannisyan
Grigoryan Artyom Gagik's RPA:
Dohoyan Vahe RPA:
Movsesian Haykaz Vagharshak RPA:
R. Simonyan's David Misha RPA:
Melkumyan Sokhak Samvel RPA:
Avagyan Vahag RPA:
RPA: Arman Vagharshak
Christ Hrachik Marukyan:
Ghukasyan's Karine Norik's :
Ayvazyan Hrant Gnuni
Kocharyan Mihran Hrachik:
Sika Haykaz Alexan
Vahe Levon's Coy
Karapetyan Anahit Gagik's :
Yeghiazaryan Armen Edik
Margaryan Romik Frunzik
Bekchyan Karen Senik:
Peleshyan Arkady Lyova
Davtyan Karen Levon
Movsisyan Eric Artur
Khlopuzyan Hasmik Martini
Nazaryan Tigran Gagik
Ohanyan Aykemik Hayk
Margaryan Hrant Carlin
Hakobyan's David Volodya
Aghabekyan Seyran Sanasar
Lokyan Arevik Baghdasar

Community contact info

Municipality address - Armenia, 2001, Lori Marz, Vanadzor Hayki Sq., 22 Building
Phone:. - (+374 322) 2 26 48, (+374 60) 65 04 04, (+374 60) 65 00 40
E-mail - vanadzor.lori@mta.gov.am
Web-site - http://vanadzor.am/

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