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It was renamed Leninakan during the Soviet period and became a major industrial and textile center in Soviet Armenia. 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 under modern ...
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.
Born in Leninakan, Armenian SSR (now Gyumri, Armenia), a city famous for its world class weightlifters, Militosyan took up weightlifting in 1980 under the guidance of cousin Vardan Militosyan and joined the Soviet national team in 1987.
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...
Nov 29, 2017 · "Kumayri" State Historical-Architectural Reserve-Museum (Leninakan, now Gyumri, 1980, State Prize of the USSR, 1985). The renovation of the Armenian Genocide Memorial in 2011-2015, The Tsitsernakaberd alley and the surrounding area were restored.
Sep 13, 2016 · Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR, 1988. After the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th, Konstantin Berezhnoy, a 50-year-old Russian, and Robert Melkonyan, a 28-year-old Armenian, work together to rescue the desperate survivors.
Dec 3, 2013 · On December 7th, 1988, Leninakan, the second-largest city in Soviet-ruled Armenia, was razed to the ground by a devastating earthquake. Twenty-five years later, Gyumri, as the town is now called,...
