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Hrant Ayvazyan
Hrant Ayvazyan (; 14 September 1969 – 6 February 2024) was an Armenian politician, Member of the National Assembly of Armenia of Bright Armenia's faction. Ayvazyan died in a traffic collision on 6 February 2024, at the age of 54. Early life and education Born in Vanadzor (formerly Kirovakan), Ayvazyan spent his early years in his hometown. He served in the armed forces of the USSR from 1988 to 1989. Following his military service, he pursued higher education at the Kirovakan branch of the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute, where he graduated in 1992 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Career From 1997 to 2001, he taught at school No. 13 in Vanadzor, nurturing the next generation of learners. His expertise extended into several developmental projects; in 2003, he served as an expert-evaluator for the "NGO sector capacity assessment" project, and in 2006, as an expert for the "Strengthening of comprehensive waste management system in RA" project. Between 2008 and 2019, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The National Assembly Of Armenia
The members of the 7th convocation of the National Assembly of Armenia were elected on 9 December 2018 and sworn in on 14 January 2019. Members of the National Assembly Replacements See also * Government of Armenia * Politics of Armenia * Second Pashinyan government * 8th National Assembly of Armenia The eighth National Assembly (Armenia), National Assembly of Armenia was elected at the 2021 Armenian parliamentary election. The President of the National Assembly of Armenia of the session is Alen Simonyan. Vice speakers * Ruben Rubinyan * Ha ... References {{reflist External links National Assembly website Members of the National Assembly (Armenia) by term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lori Province
Lori (, ) is a provinces of Armenia, province (''Administrative divisions of Armenia, marz'') of Armenia. It is located in the north of the country, bordering Georgia (country), Georgia. Vanadzor is the capital and largest city of the province. Other important towns include Stepanavan, Alaverdi, Armenia, Alaverdi, and Spitak. It is home to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Haghpat and Sanahin Monastery, Sanahin monasteries and the well-preserved Akhtala monastery. The province was heavily damaged during the 1988 Armenian earthquake. The province is served by the Stepanavan Airport. Etymology The name Lori (Լոռի) is of Armenian origin (from Armenian "quail"), first appeared in the 11th century when King David I Anhoghin founded the fortified city of Lori Berd Fortress, Lori. The fortress-city became the capital of the Kingdom of Tashir-Dzoraget in 1065. The name Lori later spread through the region and replaced the original name of Tashir. Geography Situated at the north ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bright Armenia
Bright Armenia () is a classical liberal political party in Armenia founded on 12 December 2015. History In 2017, Bright Armenia launched an educational program aimed at advancing and promoting liberal politics, known as the Institute of Liberal Politics (ILP); it is an affiliated member of the European Liberal Forum. In the 2017 Armenian parliamentary election and the 2017 Yerevan City Council election, the party took part in the elections as part of the Way Out Alliance, gaining few seats. In the 2018 Yerevan City Council election, the party ran as a part of the Bright Alliance. The alliance won three seats in the Yerevan City Council, with two seats taken by Bright Armenia and one seat taken by the Hanrapetutyun Party. Following the 2018 Armenian parliamentary election, Bright Armenia became the third largest party in the National Assembly and one of the two official opposition parties, the other being Prosperous Armenia. In May 2021, the party confirmed it would par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yerevan
Yerevan ( , , ; ; sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia, as well as one of the world's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country, as its primate city. It has been the Historical capitals of Armenia, capital since 1918, the Historical capitals of Armenia, fourteenth in the history of Armenia and the seventh located in or around the Ararat Plain. The city also serves as the seat of the Araratian Pontifical Diocese, which is the largest diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church and one of the oldest dioceses in the world. The history of Yerevan dates back to the 8th century BC, with the founding of the fortress of Erebuni Fortress, Erebuni in 782 BC by King Argishti I of Urartu, Argishti I of Urartu at the western extreme of the Ararat Plain. Erebuni was "designed as a great administrative and reli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (ArSSR), also known as Soviet Armenia, or simply Armenia, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union, located in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Soviet Armenia bordered the Soviet republics of Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Azerbaijan and Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia and the independent states of Iran and Turkey. The capital of the republic was Yerevan and it contained thirty-seven Districts of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, districts (raions). Other major cities in the Armenian SSR included Gyumri, Leninakan, Vanadzor, Kirovakan, Hrazdan, Vagharshapat, Etchmiadzin, and Kapan. The republic was governed by Communist Party of Armenia (Soviet Union), Communist Party of Armenia, a republican branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Soviet Armenia was established on 29 November 1920, with the Red Army invasion of Armenia, Sovietisation of the short-lived Firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aragatsotn Province
Aragatsotn (, ) is a administrative divisions of Armenia, province (''Marz (country subdivision), marz'') of Armenia. It is located in the western part of the country. The capital and largest city of the province is the town of Ashtarak. The Statistical Committee of Armenia reported its population was 128,941 in the 2022 census. Etymology Literally meaning "the foot of Mount Aragats, Aragats" (the highest mountain of Armenia), it is named after the Aragatsotn canton of the historic Ayrarat province of Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity), Ancient Armenia, ruled by the Amatuni noble family under the reign of the Arsacid dynasty of Armenia, Arsacid dynasty. Geography Aragatsotn Province occupies the northwestern part of Armenia and covers an area of 2,756 km2 (9.3% of the total area of Armenia). It has internal borders with Shirak Province from the north, Lori Province from the northeast, Kotayk Province from the east, Armavir Province from the south and the city of Yerevan from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanadzor
Vanadzor (, ) is an urban municipal community and the third largest city in Armenia, serving as the capital of Lori Province in the northern part of the country. It is located about north of the capital Yerevan. As of the 2011 census, the city had a population of 86,199, down from 148,876 reported at the 1979 official census. Currently, the town has a population of approximately 75,186 as of the 2022 census. Vanadzor is the seat of the Diocese of Gougark of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Etymology In the official records of the Russian Empire, the city was labelled as (). Following the Sovietization of Armenia, the city was renamed (, alternatively ') in 1926 after Armenian Bolshevik revolutionary Alexander Miasnikian. In 1935, it was renamed ''Kirovakan'', after the Russian Bolshevik leader Sergey Kirov. A close associate of Miasnikian and Aghasi Khanjian, Kirov had been assassinated on December 1 of the previous year. On 25 June 1992, after Armenia gained its independe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lori Marz
Lori (, ) is a provinces of Armenia, province (''Administrative divisions of Armenia, marz'') of Armenia. It is located in the north of the country, bordering Georgia (country), Georgia. Vanadzor is the capital and largest city of the province. Other important towns include Stepanavan, Alaverdi, Armenia, Alaverdi, and Spitak. It is home to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Haghpat and Sanahin Monastery, Sanahin monasteries and the well-preserved Akhtala monastery. The province was heavily damaged during the 1988 Armenian earthquake. The province is served by the Stepanavan Airport. Etymology The name Lori (Լոռի) is of Armenian origin (from Armenian "quail"), first appeared in the 11th century when King David I Anhoghin founded the fortified city of Lori Berd Fortress, Lori. The fortress-city became the capital of the Kingdom of Tashir-Dzoraget in 1065. The name Lori later spread through the region and replaced the original name of Tashir. Geography Situated at the north ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Births
1969 (Roman numerals, MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 – Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – USS Enterprise fire, An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 28 and injures 314. * January 16 – First successful docking of two crewed spacecraft in orbit and the first transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another (by a space walk) between Soviet craft Soyuz 5 and Soyuz 4. * January 18 – Failure of Soyuz 5's service module to separ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bright Armenia Politicians
Bright may refer to: Common meanings *Bright, an adjective meaning giving off or reflecting illumination; see Brightness *Bright, an adjective meaning someone with intelligence People * Bright (surname) * Bright (given name) *Bright, the stage name of Thai actor, musician, model, host and entrepreneur Vachirawit Chivaaree Places Australia * Bright, Victoria, a town * Electoral district of Bright in South Australia Canada * Bright Parish, New Brunswick Northern Ireland * Bright, County Down, a village and parish in County Down United States *Bright, Indiana, a census-designated place * Bright, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Bright, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community Arts and entertainment Music * Bright (American band), an experimental pop group from Brooklyn, New York ** ''Bright'' (Bright (American band) album), 1996 album *Bright (Japanese band), a dance vocal band from Japan ** ''Bright'' (Bright (Japanese band) album), 2012 album * "Bright" (song), a so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
