Ararat (Armenia)
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Ararat Արարատ |
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| Province : | Ararat | ||
| Founded : | 1929 | ||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 49 ' N , 44 ° 43' E | ||
| Residents : | 19,270 (2011) | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 4 | ||
| Community type: | city | ||
| Mayor : | Hajk Hajkjan ( HHK ) | ||
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Ararat ( Armenian Արարատ ) is a city in Armenia .
geography
It is located in the province of Ararat about 40 km southeast of Yerevan and has 19,270 inhabitants (2011 census).
history
The place was created in 1929 in connection with the construction of a cement works a little north of the village of Dawalu (accordingly in Azerbaijani Davalı , as originally mainly inhabited by Azerbaijanis ). In 1935 (according to other data in 1939) it received the status of an urban-type settlement , initially simply as a settlement of the Dawalu cement works ( Russian Посёлок Давалинского цементного завода , Possjolok Dawalinskowo zementnowo sawoda ). In 1947 the village and settlement were renamed Ararat (according to other sources, the settlement was already called Araratawan ). In 1962 the settlement received city rights. It had previously belonged to Wedi Rajon , named after the center of the Rajon and a village a few kilometers to the north (city since 1995). The Rajon was also temporarily dissolved in 1962, but re-established in 1964, now under the name Ararat and based in the city of Ararat. The Rajon went up in 1995 in the newly formed Ararat province, with the city losing the function of the administrative seat to the somewhat larger Artaschat .
traffic
Ararat has a train station on the Yerevan – Jolfa railway , which opened in 1908, but which is interrupted behind Yerash as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the border with Azerbaijan , which belongs to the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic . In the passenger no trains currently run in Ararat "temporary" (June 2017).
Sports
Ararat was the home of the football club and two-time champions (1998, 2000) Araks Ararat, which had long played in the highest Armenian league, Bardsragujn chumb , but was dissolved in 2005.
sons and daughters of the town
- Aram Sarkissjan (* 1961), politician and Prime Minister from 1999 to 2000
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.araratcity.am/Pages/Staff/ (accessed January 4, 2020)
- ↑ Ararat: Results of the 2011 census at the Armenian Statistical Office (PDF; Armenian)
- ↑ The Armenian Railway Timetable for the route .