Abovyan
|
Abovyan Աբովյան |
|||
| State : |
 Armenia
|
||
| Province : | Kotajk | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 16 ′ N , 44 ° 37 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 1360 m | ||
| Residents : | 42,589 (2011) | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 4 | ||
| Community type: | city | ||
| Mayor : | Wahagn Geworgjan (independent) | ||
| Website : | |||
|
|||
Abovyan ( Armenian Աբովյան , Abovyan in scientific transliteration ; Russian Абовян ), formerly Elar (Элар), is the sixth largest city in Armenia .
geography
Abovjan belongs to the province of Kotayk , but is only about 10 km northeast of Yerevan at an altitude of 1360 m above sea level and is in fact a suburb of the Armenian capital. The city has 42,589 inhabitants (2011).
history
The village of Elar was in the south of today's urban area. Excavations in Elar have shown that the site was inhabited as early as the 4th millennium BC (i.e. in the early Bronze Age ). The fortress of Elar was from the Urartu King Argišti I. built. The village was named in 1961 after the Armenian writer Chatschatur Abovjan (1809-1848?) And from 1963 it was developed into an industrial site.
Industry
Around 15 km northeast of Abovjan there is a gas storage facility in a salt dome that is very important for Armenia. Construction began in 1962, but has not yet been fully completed. So far the plant holds 90 million. m³, but possible up to 200 million. m³. The pressure is normally 125 bar . When at the end of January 2006 the gas supply from Russia (at that time the only supplier to Armenia) was interrupted for a week due to an explosion in the pipeline, negative consequences for people and the economy were averted by the reserves from the underground reservoir (see also Iran-Armenia Natural gas pipeline ).
traffic
Abovjan is on the Yerevan – Sotk railway line , which was closed for a long time due to the conflict resulting from the independence of Armenia and is now only operated sporadically.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.aysor.am/en/news/2019/06/10/abovyan-mayor/1573481 (accessed January 4, 2020)
- ↑ Kotajk: Results of the 2011 census at the Armenian statistical office (PDF; Armenian)
- ↑ Boris A. Kuftin : The Urartian Columbarium at the Foot of Ararat and the Eneolithic Stage of the Kura-Araks Basin . Vestnik Gosudarstvennogo Muzeja Gruzii 13B [1943], pp. 92-123.
- ^ See: Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas . Vol. 8: The Middle East and Caucasus . 2006. ISBN 954-12-0128-8 , p. 6, note 1.