Gharibjanyan

40°44′46″N 43°47′49″E / 40.74611°N 43.79694°E / 40.74611; 43.79694

Place in Shirak, Armenia

Gharibjanyan Ղարիբջանյան

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Coordinates: 40°44′46″N 43°47′49″E / 40.74611°N 43.79694°E / 40.74611; 43.79694
Country	Armenia
Province	Shirak
Municipality	Akhuryan
Elevation	1,470 m (4,820 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	1,055
Time zone	UTC+4

Gharibjanyan (Armenian: Ղարիբջանյան), known as Aleksandrovka until 1935, is a village in the Akhuryan Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. The village was renamed in 1935 in honor of Bolshevik leader Bagrat Gharibjanyan, killed in 1920.^[1]

Demographics

The population of the village since 1908 is as follows:<^[2]

Year	Population
1908	202
1926	345
1939	539
1959	667
1970	674
1979	595
1989	954
2001	953
2004	954

References

^ Kiesling, Brady (June 2000). Rediscovering Armenia: An Archaeological/Touristic Gazetteer and Map Set for the Historical Monuments of Armenia (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 November 2021.
^ Հայաստանի Հանրապետության բնակավայրերի բառարան [Republic of Armenia settlements dictionary] (PDF) (in Armenian). Yerevan: Cadastre Committee of the Republic of Armenia. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2018.