Gyumri
Proper noun
Meaning
Gyumri
The second largest city in Armenia and the capital of the Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country.
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As mayor of Armenia's second-biggest city, Gyumri, he.
In December 1988, the second largest city in the republic, Leninakan (now Gyumri ), was heavily damaged by a massive quake that killed more than 25,000 people.
Most of the population lives in the western and northwestern parts of the country, where the two major cities, Yerevan and Gyumri (which was called Aleksandropol' during the tsarist period), are located.
Fridtjof Nansen among orphaned Armenian boys at a summer camp near Gyumri in 1925.
An Armenian court today found Russian soldier Valery Permyakov guilty of murdering six members of a Gyumri family on January 12 of last year and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
His Holiness paid a visit to Gyumri – a spiritual center of Armenian Catholics.