Lernadzor () is a village in the

Kajaran Municipality Kajaran Municipality, referred to as Kajaran Community ( ''Kajaran Hamaynk''), is an urban community and administrative subdivision of Syunik Province of Armenia, at the south of the country. Composed of a group of settlements, its administrative ...

of the

Syunik Province Syunik (, ) is the southernmost province of Armenia. It is bordered by the Vayots Dzor Province to the north, Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic exclave to the west, Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran to the south. Its capital and larg ...

Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...

Toponymy

The village was previously known as ''Kyurdikend''.

Demographics

The village's population was 866 at the 2011 census, up from 416 at the 2001 census.

Municipal administration

Lernadzor was previously a community which included the villages of Lernadzor, Kavchut, Musallam, Nerkin Giratagh and Verin Giratagh, until the June 2017 administrative and territorial reforms, when the village became a part of the

. The

Statistical Committee of Armenia The Statistical Committee of Armenia (), or ArmStat in short, is the national statistical agency of Armenia. History The statistical institution started its main activities on 7 January 1922 and was previously known as the Statistical Departme ...

reported the community of Lernadzor's population as 1,011 in 2011, up from 547 in 2010, which was down from 634 at the 2001 census.

Uranium mine

In the 1970s, a Russian exploration team uncovered a mine containing in Lernadzor about 30,000 tons of

uranium Uranium is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-grey metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons. Ura ...

. In February 2008, a memorandum was signed between the ROA Ministry of Nature Protection and ''Rosatom'', the Russian State Nuclear Energy Corporation, regarding the cooperative geological exploration, production and reprocessing in the Armenian uranium sector.''The Specter of Uranium Once Again Hangs Over Syunik''
Hetq Online, November 10, 2008.

Gallery

Լեռնաձոր գյուղի հիմնական դպրոց.jpg, Village school Գյուղ Լեռնաձոր-1.jpg, A view of the village

References

Populated places in Syunik Province {{Syunik-geo-stub