Gagarin, Armenia

40°32′13″N 44°51′28″E

Gagarin Գագարին
Main road in Gagarin
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 40°32′13″N 44°51′28″E
Country	Armenia
Province	Gegharkunik
Municipality	Sevan
Founded	1955
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	1,379
Time zone	UTC+4 (AMT)
Gagarin, Armenia at GEOnet Names Server

Gagarin (Armenian: Գագարին) is a village in the Sevan Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. It was founded in 1955 and named after the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.^[2] Administratively, the village is under the subordination of the Sevan municipality.

Gallery

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  Yuri Gagarin's monument
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  Gagarin train station
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  Yuri Gagarin's monument
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  Scenery around Gagarin

References

1. Statistical Committee of Armenia. "The results of the 2011 Population Census of Armenia" (PDF).
2. Kiesling, Rediscovering Armenia, p. 41, available online at the US embassy to Armenia's website Archived June 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census, Statistical Committee of Armenia