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The Armenian SSR, as a Soviet republic, was internationally recognized by the United Nations as part of the Soviet Union but it had Norair Sisakian as President of the 21st session of the UNESCO General Conference in 1964. The Soviet Union was also a member of Comecon, Warsaw Pact and the International Olympic Committee.
The shock occurred in the northern region of Armenia (then Armenian SSR, as part of the Soviet Union) which is vulnerable to large and destructive earthquakes and is part of a larger active seismic belt that stretches from the Alps to the Himalayas.
It was renamed Leninakan [c] during the Soviet period and became a major industrial and textile center in Soviet Armenia. [3] The city's population rapidly grew to above 200,000 prior to the 1988 Spitak earthquake, when it was devastated, with the city's population being reduced to 121,976 as of the 2011 census. The city was renamed Gyumri ...
Dec 6, 2018 · 1 Gyumri (known during the Soviet period as Leninakan) photographed two years before disaster struck. The city is Armenia's second-largest, after the capital, Yerevan. 2 A clock in Gyumri,...
Dec 8, 2008 · Gyumri, Armenia: Known as Leninakan in the Soviet Era, is home to the second largest urban population in Armenia and a city with a notorious history. It was in Gyumri where Turkish forces under...
Dec 6, 2013 · Leninakan, the second largest town in Armenia, never fully recovered from the earthquake. Coffins in the devastated Spitak. The quake struck at 11:41 local time when children were at school and...
Early in 1988, the southern Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan witnessed large-scale political demonstrations and ethnic clashes. Renewed demonstrations and street confrontations in mid-May led to the dismissal of the Communist Party chiefs in both republics.
