Air quality monitoring equipment at Yerevan construction sites has yet to be installed three and a half months after the city’s municipal council issued a directive to do so.
In May 2022, Kristina Loginova, a Russian designer, relocated to Armenia. At the time, she knew nothing about Armenia, but the last thing she could ever imagine was to encounter the problem of air pollution in this mountainous country.
The NYTimes article states that pollution in Yerevan on the worst air quality day in 2019 reached 153µg/m3. In Gyumri, Armenia’s 2nd city, the number was 104µg/m3; in Vanadzor - 103µg/m3; and Stepanakert - 75 µg/m3:
Prior to 2013, air quality readings were taken at specified hours during the day. Today, readings are taken on a 24-hour basis.
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