Sverdlov is a poor and remote community in Lori Marz. It is close to neighboring Georgia than to the regional center of Vanadzor. It would seem that its remoteness has left this community of 1,200 to fend for itself when trying to tackle its problems. The ...
Despite the tight budgetary constraints it faces, the municipal council of Vanadzor decided to forgive a portion of the debts owed by “Prometheus-Kimprom” and allocate a partially constructed sub-station it owns to the “Electric Networks of Armenia” ...
At 3 am on the night of May 28, unidentified assailants burned the door of the apartment of Larisa Paremuzyan, member of the People's Party of Armenia and proposed majoritarian candidate for Constituency 31 in the Lori Marz.
Though he is only 40 years old, former prisoner of war Arthur Minasyan has already lost his health.
Precious plants are nearing extinction in the forest area surrounding Vanadzor.
We were the first people to inform the head of the Bazum village administration in the Lori Marz about the winter wheat the government had provided as aid to his village.
Shek Yerand, or "Blond Fury" - this is what residents of Vanadzor who live right outside the forest call the sliding mud that flows down the hill.
On March 17, Arusyak Melkumyan, a notorious Vanadzor pimp, was sentenced to four years in prison by the Court of First Instance of Lori Marz, Judge Barik Grigoryan presiding, on charges of human trafficking.
Grandmother Siranush (the last names of most of the elderly in this article have been omitted at the request of the staff) is the only resident of the retirement home who has higher education.
Martun Sakanyan first had his lungs checked back in the Soviet years when he suffered breathing complaints and the Alaverdi Copper Smelting Plant referred him to a hospital. But Martun Sakanyan never found out what he was diagnosed with.
"I can't imagine that he's alive," the mother of a soldier who went missing in action in the Karabakh War admitted painfully. "If he were, wouldn't he know that we're waiting?"
"Nobody has the right to cut down trees; it's forbidden," says Samvel Kotsinyan, chief inspector at the Lori regional division of the Environmental Inspection Agency.
Eighty-seven year old Ashkhen Hakobjanyan was not particularly overjoyed by the medal she was given on the 60 th anniversary of VE Day. That kind of attention from the state does little to help the abandoned woman put food on her table.
In a study he conducted in Vanadzor in 1987, early in his medical career, Dr. Karen Adamyan discovered that pharyngitis, the inflammation of pharyngeal mucous membrane, was being caused by the ammonia emitted by a local chemical plant.
Mayis only had the chance to go to school for two years - first and second grade. It got harder and harder for his mother to take him and her other disabled son to school, and finally she took them out
"We didn't accept their dirty customs, the commandments of their Church. And so they expelled us," 95- year-old Ivan Nikolayevich tells us the story of the Molokans. The residents of the village of Fioletovo in the Lori Marz hold the customs of their ancestors sacred and follow their religious teachings.
Fifteen cases of hepatitis were registered in Vanadzor in June, ten of them from in the district of Taron-2. According to local doctors, the disease is seasonal, and such outbreaks occur in the spring and fall of every year.
Lilit Baghoyan, an Armenian by nationality, and Ramilya Khudayarova, an Azeri, were both born in Nagorno Karabakh, in towns just fifteen kilometers away from each other. At one time, their families lived that close by. But that was in the past.
Visitors in Alaverdi always notice the city's little waterfall. When they ask what it's called, the locals frown, and are forced to admit that it's not a waterfall at all, but sewage from the Sarahart district falling into the Debed River .
Vahan Sargisyan's most important task is to orientate himself in space, ". but the fact is that I can't cross the street, get from one side of the street to another is a problem, too," says the 32-year-old, who lost his sight when he was six.
“It’s likely that people themselves bring construction and household garbage in their cars and dump it into the river,” he told us, adding, “As far as the garbage collected in the land we rent near the river is concerned, it’s possible that during the spring floods wind blew the garbage into the river. But that doesn’t happen very often.”