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Vazgen Sargsyan House-Museum
Vazgen Sargsyan House-Museum ( hy, Վազգեն Սարգսյանի տուն-թանգարան) is a house-museum located in the Ararat village of Ararat Province, Armenia. It was opened in 2001 and located on Garegin Nzhdeh street. The museum is dedicated to the former Prime Minister of Armenia Vazgen Sargsyan Vazgen Zaveni Sargsyan ( hy, Վազգեն Զավենի Սարգսյան, ; 5 March 1959 – 27 October 1999) was an Armenian military commander and politician. He was the first Defence Minister of Armenia from 1991 to 1992 and then from .... . 1in.am Gallery [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ararat (village), Armenia
Ararat ( hy, Արարատ) is a major village in the Ararat Province of Armenia, located 14 km south of the provincial centre Artashat. In the 2011 census, the village had a population of 7,609. It hosted to the first CYMA – Canadian Youth Mission to Armenia led by Ronald Alepian in 1993. The village is home to the Vazgen Sargsyan House-Museum. Famous natives *Vazgen Sargsyan, assassinated Prime Minister of Armenia. *Aram Sargsyan, former Prime Minister of Armenia. See also * Ararat Province Ararat ( hy, Արարատ, ), is a province ('' marz'') of Armenia. Its capital and largest city is the town of Artashat. The province is named after the biblical Mount Ararat. It is bordered by Turkey from the west and Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan ... References *Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census Populated places in Ararat Province Erivan Governorate Yazidi populated places in Armenia {{AraratAM-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ararat Province
Ararat ( hy, Արարատ, ), is a province ('' marz'') of Armenia. Its capital and largest city is the town of Artashat. The province is named after the biblical Mount Ararat. It is bordered by Turkey from the west and Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic from the south. It surrounds the Karki exclave of Nakhichevan which has been controlled by Armenia since its capture in May 1992 during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Domestically, Ararat is bordered by Armavir Province from the northwest, Kotayk Province from the north, Gegharkunik Province from the east, Vayots Dzor Province from the southeast and the city of Yerevan from the north. Two former capitals of Armenia are located in the modern-day Ararat Province, Artaxata and Dvin. It is also home to the Khor Virap monastery, significant as the place of Gregory the Illuminator's 13-year imprisonment and the closest point to Mount Ararat within Armenian borders. Etymology Ararat Province is named after the historic A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vazgen Sargsyan
Vazgen Zaveni Sargsyan ( hy, Վազգեն Զավենի Սարգսյան, ; 5 March 1959 – 27 October 1999) was an Armenian military commander and politician. He was the first Defence Minister of Armenia from 1991 to 1992 and then from 1995 to 1999. He served as Armenia's Prime Minister from 11 June 1999 until his assassination on 27 October of that year. He rose to prominence during the mass movement for the unification of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia in the late 1980s and led Armenian volunteer groups during the early clashes with Azerbaijani forces. Appointed defence minister by President Levon Ter-Petrosyan soon after Armenia's independence from the Soviet Union in late 1991, Sargsyan became the most prominent commander of Armenian forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. In different positions, he regulated the military operations in the war area until 1994, when a ceasefire was reached ending the war with Armenian forces controlling almost all of Nagorno-Karab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenia
Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Oxford Reference Online'' also place Armenia in Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region; and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, the Lachin corridor (under a Russian peacekeeping force) and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the south. Yerevan is the capital, largest city and the financial center. Armenia is a unitary, multi-party, democratic nation-state with an ancient cultural heritage. The first Armenian state of Urartu was established in 860 BC, and by the 6th century BC it was replaced by the Satrapy of Armenia. The Kingdom of Armenia reached its height under Tigranes the Great in the 1st century BC and in the year 301 became the first state in the world to adopt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museums Established In 2001
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from the conservation and documentation of their collection, serving researchers and specialists, to catering to the general public. The goal of serving researchers is not only scientific, but intended to serve the general public. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, and children's museums. According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museums In Armenia
;List of the museums in Armenia: *History Museum of Armenia *Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts *National Gallery of Armenia *Yerevan History Museum * Charents Museum of Literature and Arts *Cafesjian Center for the Arts * ARF History Museum * Erebuni Museum of the Erebuni Fortress *Museum of Folk Art of Armenia *Modern Art Museum of Yerevan *Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute *Geology Museum of Gyumri *Dzitoghtsyan Museum of National Architecture * Zoological Museum-Institute * Natural History Museum of Armenia * Geological Museum after H. Karapetyan *National Museum-Institute of Architecture named after Alexander Tamanian * Sergei Parajanov Museum * Mother Armenia Military Museum * Middle East Art Museum *Armenia Ethnography Museum * Armenian Medical Museum *Service for the Protection of Historical Environment and Cultural Museum-Reserves House-museums, biography *General Andranik Museum of Patriotic Movement *House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian *House-Museum of Hovh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
