It has been a year since the village of Debet in the Lori region passed from “toward the good” to “toward SMART”. The village, buried in the green from head to toe, has a modern Municipality building, street lighting, a bus stop, a library, and soon a beauty salon, boulangerie, a modern school, a kindergarten, and other businesses and infrastructure.
The young faces of Lori’s Aznvadzor village 12 December 2021 By Nane Vardanyan Photos by: Knar Babayan 3 min read Not far from Lori’s third-largest city of Vanadzor, between the concave slopes of the Bazum mountain range, there is a village called Aznvadzor (Azniv = sincere, dzor = gorge) with a population of more than…
Endless plains and mountains reaching to the clouds, and ravines hanging from the fields, through which Dzoraget flows. This year-round panorama can be viewed from the balcony of almost every house in Dzoragyugh.
“Oh, wow” is probably the best expression in the Lori dialect to convey the region’s landscape in all its beauty.
Around 8 PM, if you suddenly find yourself in the playground of Vahagnadzor village and hear the children chant in unison, “Batum, Batum,” don’t be confused. You are still in Vahagnadzor village of the Lori region.
The children are just impatiently waiting for the arrival of the Yerevan-Batumi train.
Early days of fall in Lori’s Bazum village 26 September 2021 By Nane Vardanyan Photos by: Knar Babayan 3 min read All seasons are vividly expressed in the village of Bazum, a place hidden on the southern slope of the namesake Bazum mountain range of the Lori region. Imagine how gorgeous the emerging fall season…
The young fishers of Lori’s town of Tumanyan 29 August 2021 By Nane Vardanyan Photos by: Knar Babayan 3 min read When revolving around the northern Lori region of Armenia, you’ll feel a solid contrast upon entering Tumanyan, a community with signature architecture, maintained roads, and crowded streets. Previously a village, Tumanyan has received a…
Every village has its own problem: Meghrashen 11 August 2021 By Nane Vardanyan Photos by: Knar Babayan 3 min read Sharp humor, hospitality, and diligence are typical of the people living in Armenia’s Shirak region. These also reflect the spirit in Meghrashen village, one of the seven COAF-supported villages in this province, where we have…
The village of pink stones and incomplete excavation 16 July 2021 By Nane Vardanyan Photos by: Knar Babayan 3 min read We all know Yerevan is called “the pink city”. But is there a pink village? On the rocky uplands of the Shirak region of Armenia lies Vardakar village that has many pink stones (vard=…
Chkalov, “chka love” (in Armenian, there is no love).
This is how the people from Lori usually joke when a stranger is first accompanied to the village of Chkalov. In fact, the village is a place of love with its hospitable and hardworking people.
The warming of the days in Chkalov is directly proportional to the population growth.
Cold winters, warm people: Lanjik village 19 June 2021 By Nane Vardanyan Photos by: Knar Babayan 3 min read “It is so freezing here that there is no need for a refrigerator” is the joke people often use to describe Lanjik, a rocky village standing on the slope of Mount Aragats in the Shirak region…
Hagvi, the homeland of the Armenian Calvados 1 June 2021 By Knar Babayan Photos by: Knar Babayan 3 min read In Hagvi village of the Lori region, their favorite berry is a blackberry and their favorite alcohol is calvados. Yes, yes, you heard right, Calvados. This is how they explain to the guests in a…
Raising a village you were raised in: Zorakan 2 May 2021 By Nane Vardanyan, Photos by: Knar Babayan 3 min read It takes a village to raise a child. It takes children to raise a village. Childhood memories may be varied. “I was overjoyed when my parents took me to the farm to either sow…
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